“American Mosaic” is Reuters’ unique campaign polling initiative for 2012, executed in partnership with Ipsos. The project targets seven demographic groups of special interest in this presidential race.

Divided and baffled by Obamacare in the Badger State

Sheryl Harris poses for a photograph in Lynchburg, Virginia September 7, 2012. Harris, 52, voted twice for George W. Bush. Raised Baptist, she is convinced- despite all evidence to the contrary - that Barack Obama, a practicing Christian, is Muslim. So in this year's Presidential election, will she support Mitt Romney? Not a chance. Picture taken September 7, 2012. REUTERS/Parker Michels-Boyce
By Margot Roosevelt

Anthropologist Margaret Mead once called Beloit, Wisconsin "a microcosm of America." Today in this small Midwestern city Obamacare is dividing patients and doctors, hospitals and government regulators, workers and employers, constituents and politicians. And here, as elsewhere, many are confused about the law's provisions.
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Thirty-two years after leaving office, Jimmy Carter gets big cheer

Thirty-two years after leaving the White House as a defeated one-term president, Jimmy Carter was cheered by a festive crowd at the second inauguration of President Barack Obama.

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“American Mosaic” is Reuters’ unique campaign polling initiative for 2012, executed in partnership with Ipsos. The online polling effort, whose methodology has been statistically validated, will reach 12,000 Americans each month, more than 120,000 by Election Day, constituting an unprecedented sample of the U.S. electorate. The “micro-polling” project, effectively a poll within a poll, targets 10 demographic groups of special interest in this presidential race. Each of the targeted groups will be the subject of in-depth reporting as well as photojournalism and video, resulting in a multidimensional portrait of these critical communities. Profiled here is the first of them, military veterans and the families of veterans who have served since the first Persian Gulf War.