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Among voters who are regular attendees at religious services, 15% say that information relating to the 2010 midterm elections was made available at their place of worship.
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Among voters who are regular attendees at religious services, 15% say that information relating to the 2010 midterm elections was made available at their place of worship.
The majority of voters in this month’s elections favor either repealing the Bush administration’s tax cuts for everyone or repealing those received by the higher-income taxpayers.
President Obama’s trip to Asia will take him though four countries where confidence in his leadership runs high.
Only three of the top 10 election newsmaker candidates were voted into office in Tuesday’s election.
In a poll taken before the election, a third of the country said it would make no difference which party won control of Congress.
More than four-in-ten Catholics do not know that their church teaches that the bread and wine used in Communion do not merely symbolize, but actually become, the body and blood of Christ.
On a quiz of religious knowledge, on average, Americans answer 16 of 32 questions correctly.
In the year following the official end of the recent recession, the unemployment rate for immigrant workers fell 0.6 percentage points, while for native-born workers it rose 0.5 percentage points.
The public is divided over whether Barack Obama should seek a second term in 2012.
Americans are divided on the question of whether scientists agree that the earth is warming because of human activity.
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