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    Public Dissatisfied with Democratic Leaders, But Still Happy They Won

    Summary of Findings A year after the Democratic Party won control of both houses of Congress, Americans are increasingly dissatisfied with the party’s congressional leaders. Just 31% approve of their job performance, down 10 points since February. Despite these tepid ratings, most Americans (54%) say that they are happy that the Democrats won control of […]

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    Religious Groups’ Presidential Candidate Preferences

    by Dan Cox and Gregory Smith, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life As the races for the 2008 presidential nominations heat up, two recent surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press make it possible to examine how the candidates in both political parties are faring among a variety […]

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    Declining Confidence in Political Wisdom of Americans

    That’s the proportion of Americans who say they have a good deal of confidence in the wisdom of the American people when it comes to making political decisions, a seven-point decline from the number who expressed that view a decade ago, and a steep 20-point decline from the 1960s.

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    Obama, Huckabee, and a Feisty Philly Face Off

    The presidential race was easily the biggest story in the media last week. But while much of the coverage focused on the attacks on Hillary Clinton at the Democrats’ Drexel University debate, the press also reassessed several other candidates.

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    Americans’ Less Confident About Solving Problems

    That’s the proportion of the U.S. public that agrees with the statement that “as Americans we can always find a way to solve our problems and get what we want,” a 16-point drop from the 74% who thought so in 2002.

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    Young White Evangelical Support for Bush

    That’s the percentage of white evangelicals ages 18-29 who now say they approve of the job President Bush is doing, a 42- percentage-point drop since 2002.

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    Mormonism Not a Christian Religion

    Nearly a third of Americans (31%) express the opinion that Mormonism is not a Christian religion; white evangelical Protestants are most likely to take this view.