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Fully 78% of campaign coverage in early 2008 focused on political tactics.
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Fully 78% of campaign coverage in early 2008 focused on political tactics.
The number of people who say they are unaffiliated with any particular faith today (16.1%) is more than double the number who say they were not affiliated with any particular religion as children.
Shortly before the count of U.S. military fatalities reached 4,000, a Pew survey found that only 28% of U.S. adults were able to correctly specify the approximate number of Americans who have died in the Iraq war, far fewer than the number able to estimate troop deaths correctly in earlier surveys.
Just 4% of all online adults say they have had bad experiences as a result of embarrassing or inaccurate personal information being posted on the internet.
One-quarter of all adult Americans under age 30 (25%) are not affiliated with any particular religion, which is more than three times the number of unaffiliated adults ages 70 and older (8%).
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.
That’s the proportion of Americans who say they have watched one or more of the 2008 presidential campaign debates.
A plurality of Americans (23%) cite Iraq as the single most important news event of 2007, but significantly fewer named Iraq as the year’s top event than did so in 2006 (34%).
That’s the U.S. ranking on an international list of broadband adoption rates, down from No. 4 in 2001.
That’s the percentage of Republican registered voters who say the issue of immigration will be very important to their vote. Fewer Democrats (50%) and independents (57%) say the same.
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