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title: "Weekly: 9.19.26"
description: "Weekly Roundup The latest findings from Pew Research Center · Subscribe ↗ From our research The share of Americans who correctly answer all eight questions on our First Amendment quiz. How will you score?"
date: "2026-09-18"
authors:
  - name: "Anna Jackson"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/newsletter/weekly-roundup/weekly-9-19-26/"
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# Weekly: 9.19.26

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September 18, 2026

## Weekly Roundup

*The latest findings from Pew Research Center · [**Subscribe ↗**](https://pewresearch.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=434f5d1199912232d416897e4&id=3e953b9b70)*

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- **Quiz:** [How much do you know about the First Amendment?](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/quiz/how-much-do-you-know-about-the-first-amendment/)

- **What Americans think about:** [Acceptable limits of press freedom](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2026/09/15/where-americans-view-the-limits-of-press-freedom/) | [News censorship](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2026/09/15/how-americans-think-about-censorship-of-news-in-the-us/) | [Corporate and political influence in news](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2026/09/15/how-americans-think-about-corporate-and-political-influence-on-the-news/) | [Relations between government and the media](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2026/09/15/how-americans-view-the-relationship-between-the-government-and-the-news-media/)

- **U.S. data:** [Democrats are now more worried than Republicans about AI and its impact on jobs](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/09/16/democrats-are-now-more-worried-than-republicans-about-ai-and-its-impact-on-jobs/)

- **Also read:** [About 9 in 10 Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem see Israeli checkpoints as a major problem](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/09/15/about-9-in-10-palestinians-in-the-west-bank-and-east-jerusalem-see-israeli-checkpoints-as-a-major-problem/)

- [How Israelis and Palestinians view U.S. aid to Israel and Gaza](https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/09/15/views-of-the-u-s-providing-military-assistance-to-israel-and-humanitarian-aid-to-gaza/)

[      ](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/09/16/2026-primary-season-yields-greatest-preelection-house-turnover-in-over-3-decades/)

## [2026 primary season yields greatest preelection House turnover in over 3 decades](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/09/16/2026-primary-season-yields-greatest-preelection-house-turnover-in-over-3-decades/)

As Election Day approaches, 74 members of the U.S. House of Representatives – 42 Republicans and 32 Democrats – [won’t return to the chamber next year](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/09/16/2026-primary-season-yields-greatest-preelection-house-turnover-in-over-3-decades/) for one reason or another. That’s the most departures before the general election since 1992.

## [Who is Hispanic?](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/09/15/who-is-hispanic/)

National Hispanic Heritage Month began Sept. 15. More than 70 million people in the U.S. identify as Hispanic, but government agencies and survey organizations don’t count the Hispanic population in the same way. And Hispanic people [describe their own identities](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/09/15/who-is-hispanic/) using a variety of terms.

## [Weighting polls on party affiliation and past vote](https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2026/09/16/weighting-polls-on-party-affiliation-and-past-vote/)

A growing share of election polls in the United States – almost 70% of national polls in 2024 – are now weighted on [political party affiliation or reported vote choice](https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2026/09/16/weighting-polls-on-party-affiliation-and-past-vote/) in a previous election. This kind of political weighting is controversial. But evidence shows that it has made polls modestly more accurate.

## [The U.S. Constitution is among the hardest in the world to amend](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/09/14/the-us-constitution-is-among-the-hardest-in-the-world-to-amend/)

#### From our research

[9%](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/quiz/how-much-do-you-know-about-the-first-amendment/)

The share of Americans who correctly answer all eight questions on our [First Amendment quiz](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/quiz/how-much-do-you-know-about-the-first-amendment/). How will you score?