Republicans Rating the Economy as Good or Excellent
Fewer than one-in-four Republicans (23%) now rate economic conditions as excellent or good, substantially fewer than did so a few months ago.
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Obama’s Catholic Voter Problem?
Hillary Clinton won the Catholic vote in Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary by more than a two-to-one margin, repeating a pattern among religious voters similar to those seen in other states. Does this have implications for the May 6 contests in Indiana and North Carolina?
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Does Obama Have a Problem Among Catholic Voters?
Barack Obama lost the Catholic vote in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary by more than a two-to-one margin despite his campaign’s extensive Catholic outreach efforts. Among Pennsylvania Democrats, exit polls also showed significant differences in candidate preference between those who attend worship services at least once a week and those who never attend at all. Senior […]
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Writing, Technology & Teens: The Findings of the Pew Internet Project and the National Commission on Writing
This presentation offers an overview of the findings and insights from the Writing, Technology and Teens report.
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Teens, Online Stranger Contact & Harassment: What the data tell us
At the request of the Internet Safety Task Force, Amanda Lenhart presented the Pew Internet Project’s most recent data on online stranger contact, cyberbullying, the steps that teens take to ensure (or not) their online privacy and the ways in whi…
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What is the roll [sic] of traditional righting [sic] and grammar in the digital age?
Informal writing conventions – they’re not just for teenagers
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Robo-Called Voters
Pre-recorded campaign calls, or “robo-calls,” have become the leading form of campaign communication in the 2008 primary season with 39% of voters nationwide saying they have received at least one.
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Feel Less Favorable Toward Hillary Clinton
About three-in-ten Americans (31%) say their opinion of Hillary Clinton has grown less favorable in recent days, including 28% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents; by comparison, 24% of Americans — and only 13% of Democrats and Democratic leaners — report less favorable views of Barack Obama.
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Republicans Feel More Favorable to John McCain
A relatively large minority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (40%) say they have come to feel more favorably toward GOP presidential nominee John McCain in recent days.
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Electability: Clinton vs. Obama
Analysis of Pew surveys conducted in late February and March finds Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama running equally well against Sen. John McCain among voters in the big swing states of Florida, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania; Obama led McCain 52% to 40% among a representative sample of voters living in these states, while Clinton bested McCain by a statistically comparable 51%-to-42% margin.