Division Over Gun Control
A summer 2010 survey found the public split, but in favor of gun control over the right to own guns by a 50%-to-46% margin.
Publications
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A Beltway Realignment Tops the News
For much of last week, the dominant topic in the news was the installation of a new Congress as well as its impact on politics, public policy and the Obama administration. But over the weekend, an attack that occurred about 2,000 miles from Washington D.C. quickly commandeered the attention of the media and the nation.
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Pay for Online Content
Nearly two thirds of internet users have paid to download or access some kind of online content, ranging from music to games to news articles.
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Pocket-Sized Politics
About a quarter of Americans used their cell phones to learn about or participate in the 2010 midterm election campaign.
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Boomers and Social Change
Members of the Baby Boom generation align more closely with younger generations than with older ones on most social issues.
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Boomer Gloom
Fully 80% of Baby Boomers say they are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country today.
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Déjà Vu: Deficit Concerns
More than three-fourths of Americans saw the federal budget deficit as a threat to the recovering economy … in 1983. Then, as now, there was far less agreement about what to do about it.
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Global Social Networking
Along with the U.S., three other nations surveyed have at least four-in-ten adults on social networks: Poland, Britain and South Korea.
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Technology Use Around the World in 2010
Looking across 16 countries for which trends are available, the median percentage of people who own a cell phone has risen from 45% in 2002 to 81% in 2010.