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    Papal Problem

    Seven-in-ten Americans say Pope Benedict has done a poor (44%) or only fair (24%) job in addressing the child sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.

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    Tea Party Lemons?

    When asked to give a one-word impression of the Tea Party movement, a plurality of respondents offered a negative word.

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    Teen Girls Text More than Boys

    Teenage girls typically send and receive more than twice the texts (80 a day) as do boys (30 a day).

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    Text Message Received

    Over half of all teens send text messages to their friends daily.

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    Text Me

    One in three teens sends more than 100 text messages a day, or 3,000 texts a month.

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    How Americans Interact with Government Online

    Fully 82% of internet users (61% of all Americans) looked for information or completed a transaction on a government website in the past year. Most government website visitors were happy with their experience, accomplishing everything or much of what they wanted to do.

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    Teens, Cell Phones and Texting

    Fully 72% of all teens — or 88% of teen cell phone users — send text messages, up from 51% of in 2006. Among all teens, text messaging has now overtaken every other common form of interaction with their friends.

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    The Tea Party’s Effect on the Midterms?

    If you are a Republican, what’s not to like about the Tea Party movement? From this vantage point, a number of risks seem possible, if not probable.

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    Does anyone ever click on all those online ads?

    Senior research staff answer questions from readers relating to all the areas covered by our seven projects, ranging from polling techniques and findings, to media, technology, religious, demographic and global attitudes trends.

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