This range is based on factors such as the offense, the dollar amount of the crime, previous criminal history, whether the person cooperated, was there a gun involved, etc.

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The same goes for evangelicals, gun owners, etc.

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Certainly, one strains to imagine how anything touching on gun ownership, the Second Amendment, etc. could find its way into a health care reform bill just as it confounds the imagination to contemplate who might have been responsible for adding such a clause in the first place.

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Similarly, campaigns take all the data they know about you and then come up with a score that predicts the likelihood you will cast a ballot in November, vote for Barack Obama, be pro choice or a gun owner or say that the economy is your most important issue, etc.

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