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    Throw the Bums Out

    Just four-in-ten voters want to see their representative reelected this year.

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    How Many Undocumented Immigrants?

    The Census Bureau does not ask U.S. residents for their immigration status when they are counted in the 2010 Census or other population surveys.

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    Oil Spill Seen As Ecological Disaster; Government, BP Responses Faulted

    Overview A majority of Americans see the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico as a major environmental disaster, but nearly as many voice optimism that efforts to control the spill will succeed. The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted May 6-9 among 994 adults, […]

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    Who Leads the GOP?

    When asked to name the leader of the GOP, seven-in-ten Americans say they don’t know (52%) or volunteer “nobody” (18%).

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    Not Stimulated

    Six-in-ten Americans say the economic stimulus has not helped the job situation.

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    Beneficial Bailouts?

    Roughly half of Americans say TARP, federal loans to troubled banks, did not prevent a more severe financial crisis.

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    Hispanics: Targets of Discrimination

    Nearly a quarter of Americans say Hispanics face a lot of discrimination in society today, making them the racial/ethnic group the public sees as most often subjected to discrimination.

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    Macs Not Goldman Sachs

    Seven-in-ten Americans say technology companies are having a positive effect on the way things are going in this country.

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    Oil Spill Seen As Ecological Disaster

    Americans are critical of the government’s response to the environmental disaster in the Gulf, but even more so of BP. Support for offshore oil drilling is down, though Republican opinion is unchanged.