More than eight-in-ten American adults own cell phones and about three-quarters of them send and receive text messages. Text messaging users send or receive an average of 41.5 messages on a typical day.

In the last year, Spanish-language media tended to fare better overall than their mainstream English-language counterparts, and some of the biggest growth was in television. Univision led the way with 1.9 million primetime viewers, making it the fifth-largest U.S. network.

A plurality of Americans (43%) say one reason that the U.S. has not suffered another major attack since 9/11 is that the government has done a good job in its anti-terrorist efforts, but others (35%) say the country has been lucky.

Voters on average place themselves just right of center politically; this puts them slightly closer to the Republican Party than the Democratic Party.