Only about a third (32%) of Buddhists in the United States are Asian; a majority (53%) are white, and most are converts to Buddhism.

Fewer than one-in-five Americans (17%) now rate the US economy as performing well — a sharp decline from the already low number (26%) who viewed the economy as in good or excellent state in the first month of 2008

Nearly half of all internet users have searched for information about themselves online, up from just 22% in 2002.

In this year’s primary elections in three states — California, Texas and New Mexico — Latino voters more than accounted for Sen. Hillary Clinton’s total margin of victory.

Fully six-in-ten online adults are not worried about how much of their personal information is available on the internet.

By roughly two-to-one (63% to 32%), more Democratic voters say the super delegates — primarily current and former elected officials and members of the Democratic National Committee — should vote for the candidate who was won the most support in caucuses and primaries.

As voters go to the polls in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont, seven-in-ten Democrats (70%) say Obama is most likely to win the party’s nomination, while just 17% see Clinton as the likely victor. Even a majority (52%) of Clinton’s backers say they think Obama is likely to emerge as the winner.