Voters Look for Leadership on Children�s Issues

In key primary states, voters relay significant concern

for children in developing countries.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 21, 2007

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Janet M. Hodur, jhodur@globalactionforchildren.org, 202-589-0808 x224

WASHINGTON - According to new surveys of voters in key primary states, Americans are looking for a leader who will take action on behalf of children in developing countries. The polls, conducted in Iowa and New Hampshire by Peter D. Hart Research Associates and McLaughlin and Associates on behalf of the ONE Campaign, revealed:

Eighty-one percent of Democratic voters in Iowa would be more likely to support a candidate who "supports preventing more than 5.4 million young children from dying each year from poverty-related illnesses and 400,000 women from dying in childbirth each year."
Seventy-seven percent of Democratic voters in Iowa, and 75 percent in New Hampshire, indicated they would be more likely to support a candidate who "supports providing greater access to primary education for 77 million children who are not in any school, with a special emphasis on girls for a cost of only $3 billion a year."
Ninety-three percent of Democratic voters in New Hampshire agreed that "when millions of children around the world are dying from preventable diseases and hunger, we have a moral obligation to do what we can to help."

On the Republican side:

Eighty-four percent of Republican voters in New Hampshire and 79 percent in Iowa agreed that "when millions of children around the world are dying from preventable diseases and hunger, we have a moral obligation to do what we can to help."
Seventy percent of Republican voters in New Hampshire felt that "reducing poverty, treating preventable diseases, and improving education in poor countries around the world will help make the world safer and the United States more secure."
Fifty-five percent of Republican voters in Iowa would be more likely to support a candidate "who supports preventing more than 5.4 million young children from dying each year from poverty-related illnesses and 400,000 women from dying in childbirth each year."

"These numbers highlight what we’ve known all along: Americans are deeply concerned about the well-being of children, not just in the United States, but all over the world," commented Jennifer Delaney, Executive Director of Global Action for Children, a nonpartisan, results-orientated organization dedicated to advocates for orphans and vulnerable children in the developing world. "Regardless of their political affiliation, these are the values American voters will take with them to the ballot box."

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The ONE Polls are available at www.ONE.org/polls.

Global Action for Children is a nonpartisan, results-oriented coalition dedicated to advocating for orphans and other vulnerable children in the developing world. GAC aims to increase the level of funding by the governments of the wealthy countries for orphans and other vulnerable children in some of the poorest countries of the world.

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