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Over half of Americans aware of Occupy Wall St protests
Tuesday October 11, 2011 11:17:49 AM,
EFE
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Washington: While
51 percent of US residents are aware of the Occupy Wall Street
movement, fewer than half of those who know of the protests have
an opinion about them, a opinion poll released Monday indicates.
The movement, which began Sep 17 in Lower Manhattan's financial
district, has spread to other US cities, including Washington,
Boston, Chicago and Austin, Texas.
Of the respondents who had heard of the protests, 27 percent
expressed support, 19 percent said they were opposed and 54
percent had no opinion one way or the other, said an ORC
Internacional Caravan Poll.
Participants in the various Occupy protest identify themselves as
among the 99 percent of the US population whose economic fortunes
have suffered even as those in the top 1 percent have grown
richer.
ORC Internacional Caravan conducted 1,005 telephone interviews
during the period Oct 6-9. The survey has a margin of error of
plus/minus three percentage points.
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