"We've certainly seen the trend over the last ten years, " Michael Dimock, director of the center, said Wednesday.

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And how did that message plot get re-scripted when it turned out that the Dimock water contamination claim was baseless?

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"There's a large share of Americans for whom this is not a black-and-white issue, " said Michael Dimock, the Pew center's director.

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Perhaps there is little wonder then, why they would back an anti-fracking propaganda film staged in a small Pennsylvania town like Dimock.

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Mr Dimock points out that a big difference between the youth vote and other age categories is that a majority of young Americans still have faith in government to fix things.

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The first occurred in late 2011, when EPA surveyed residents regarding their private wells and reviewed hundreds of pages of drinking water data supplied to the agency by Dimock residents and PDEP, along with records from Cabot Oil and Gas Exploration which had been accused of creating a problem.

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