2006

reportDec 1, 2006

Religion and the 2006 Elections
short readNov 30, 2006

Online Health Seekers

That’s the percent of online health seekers who do not consistently check the source and date of the health information they find online.
short readNov 30, 2006

Democrats, Not Bush, Should Take Lead in Solving the Nation’s Problems

That’s the proportion of Americans who, in the wake of this November’s elections, want Democratic leaders rather than President Bush to take the lead in addressing national problems. Only 29% say the president should take the lead.
reportNov 30, 2006

Watergate Remembered In a Time of War

Three decades later, the Washington Post’s reporting on the Watergate scandal is still spoken about with a hushed reverence as a singular journalistic achievement. The legend and mythology surrounding Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein continue to grow, even as the industry itself has changed.
reportNov 29, 2006

Teens, IM and Mark Foley

Now that the election is long past and the Mark Foley scandal is perhaps a slightly less inflammatory subject, we can address some of the inquiries that we’ve gotten about young people and instant messaging.
reportNov 28, 2006

Virtual tours

More than half of internet users have taken virtual tours — nearly doubling the number who had done so in late 2004.
reportNov 27, 2006

Podcasts Proliferate

As the array of individuals and mainstream media institutions providing podcasts has expanded rapidly — as well as the types of digital multimedia content available from the internet — so too has the audience for downloadable video, images and text.
reportNov 27, 2006

Religious Groups React to the 2006 Election

The religious divide in voting that has characterized American politics over the last several elections largely persisted in the 2006 election. But people in most religious groups say they are happy that the Democrats won.
reportNov 27, 2006

Latinos and the 2006 Mid-term Election

Widely cited findings in the national exit polls suggest Latinos tilted heavily in favor of the Democrats in the 2006 election, taking back a significant portion of the support they had granted the Republicans just two years earlier.
short readNov 27, 2006

Wal-Mart Nation

That’s the number of Americans familiar with Wal-Mart, who have a favorable opinion of the company according to a Pew survey. That high rating didn’t keep the nation’s largest retailer from suffering a 0.1% drop in same-store sales over the bellwether Thanksgiving shopping weekend, news of which led the stock market downward on Monday.

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