As has been the case for some time, Americans are close to evenly divided between those who rate their personal finances as only fair or poor (51%) and those who say they are excellent or good (47%).

More than a third of adults say that their home address is available online.

Nearly half (48%) of Americans of the Hindu faith have a post-graduate education.

More than three-quarters of Americans have heard at least a little about the problems in the financial markets involving investment banks but, among this large segment of the public, fully 80% say the government has done only a fair job or a poor job addressing problems in the nation’s financial markets.

About a quarter of registered voters (26%) say they think McCain is too old to be president, and this proportion rises to nearly a third (32%) when voters are informed that he is currently 71 years old.

That’s roughly the ratio of the amount of coverage Michelle Obama has received this year compared with coverage of Cindy McCain

More than 270,000 Oregonians have already cast their ballots via mail for today’s primary.

At the start of this year’s election season, only 22% of U.S. adults said that gay marriage will be important to their vote in the coming elections.