<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/38e9165e-2ccd-4c69-8830-7835d8b4af73/30CBBA25-6873-464C-BE45-431CA580CF48/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091022/sc_livescience/whyextremistviewsdominate" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091022/sc_livescience/whyextremistviewsdominate" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091022/sc_livescience/whyextremistviewsdominate"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/51FA7C8E-0592-4F13-A395-ACCFD160F67C" alt="Yahoo! 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white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ts-si.org/politics/20662-extremists-assume-majority-status-when-sharing-opinions.html" href="http://ts-si.org/politics/20662-extremists-assume-majority-status-when-sharing-opinions.html" style="font-size: 11px;">ts-si.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ts-si.org/politics/20662-extremists-assume-majority-status-when-sharing-opinions.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="100%" class="contentheading"><A class="contentpagetitle" href="http://ts-si.org/politics/20662-extremists-assume-majority-status-when-sharing-opinions.html"> Extremists Assume Majority Status When Sharing Opinions</A> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/majopinion.htm" href="http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/majopinion.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">researchnews.osu.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/majopinion.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/researchnews.osu.edu/img/45F0AF7D-054F-4AB5-8F1E-95BEBEA0108C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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