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    Public Opinion About Mormons

    Mitt Romney’s speech discussing the role of religion in American politics addressed a public among which many harbor doubts about his Mormon faith.

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    GOP Race Unsettled in Politically Diverse Early States

    Summary of Findings Republican voter sentiment in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina is highly fluid. Compared with Democratic voters, likely Republican voters in these three politically disparate states express less enthusiasm about their field of presidential candidates, and many Republicans voice only modest support for their choices. Mike Huckabee runs even with Mitt Romney […]

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    U.S. Pentecostals Witnessing Miracles

    That’s the percentage of American pentecostals who say they have witnessed or experienced a divine healing of an illness or injury.

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    Online Teens Contacted by Strangers

    About a third of teenagers who access the internet say they have been contacted by someone unknown to them or to their friends; but few (7%) view the contact as threatening.

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    Fewer Parents Say Internet Good for Their Teenagers

    While a majority (59%) of parents with online teens still believe the internet is a beneficial factor in their children’s lives, the number of parents who see the internet as a good thing for their children has declined since 2004.

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    Chavez’s Unpopularity in Latin America

    Large majorities in many of Venzuela’s Latin American neighbors say they have little or no confidence in Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, who suffered a substantial setback in last Sunday’s elections in his own country.

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    Kenya Alone Says U.S. Acts to Reduce Global Inequality

    Kenya is the sole country, among the 47 covered by the latest Pew Global Attitudes Survey, in which a majority (55%) says that U.S. policies lessen the gap between rich and poor countries. The perception that American policies increase the gap between rich and poor countries prevails in most of the countries covered by the survey.

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    Public Opinion About Mormons

    On Thursday Dec. 6, Mitt Romney will deliver an address outlining the way his religious faith has influenced his political career. Recent Pew polling finds that Romney, more than any other presidential candidate (Republican or Democrat), is viewed as very religious by the public. This perception is, for the most part, an asset for Romney’s […]

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    The Religion Factor in the 2008 Election

    Pew Forum Faith Angle Conference Key West, Florida Video Highlights http://blip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer.swf?autostart=false&brandname=Pew%20Forum&brandlink=https://www.pewresearch.org/religion&showplayerpath=http://blip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer.swf&file=http://religionfactor2008.blip.tv/rss/flash?sort=date&nsfw=dc&user=GreenForum&showguidebutton=false&showsharebutton=true&showfsbutton=true&showplaylist=true Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in December 2007 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. John Green, author of The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections, described how George Bush’s […]