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Abortion has emerged as an issue in the 2012 presidential race, following Missouri GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin’s controversial comments about abortion and “legitimate rape.” In recent years, narrow majorities of the public have consistently said that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. The Democratic Party is widely favored over the GOP […]
Rapidly Growing Hispanic Support for Same-Sex Marriage Washington, D.C. – Latinos are divided byreligion in their preferences in the upcoming presidential election, accordingto a new Pew Research Center survey. Three-quarters of LatinoCatholics and eight-in-ten religiously unaffiliated Latinos support PresidentBarack Obama’s re-election. However, among Latino evangelical Protestants, whoaccount for 16% of all Latino registered voters, just […]
Overview As the presidential campaign enters its final week, Barack Obama has failed to regain much of the support he lost in the days following the first presidential debate and the race is now even among likely voters: 47% favor Obama while an identical percentage supports Mitt Romney. The latest national survey by the Pew […]
In winning reelection, Barack Obama won 60% of the vote among those younger than 30. That was down somewhat from 2008, when Obama won nearly two-thirds (66%) of the votes of young people. However, Obama’s youth support may have been an even more important factor in his victory this year than it was in 2008. […]
As was the case four years earlier, the strategic aspects of the campaign dominated coverage of the closing weeks of the 2012 presidential race. Taken together, horse-race coverage as well as advertising and fundraising stories–which includes advertising, fundraising, endorsements, and the media’s coverage of themselves-combined for 44% of all the coverage examined. Yet, that is […]
Contact: Tom Rosenstiel, Amy Mitchell or Mark Jurkowitz of PEJ at 202.419.3650 Both Candidates Received More Negative than Positive Coverage in Mainstream NEws, but Social Media was Even Harsher Fewer Horserace Stories- and Fewer Positive Obama Stories – than in 2008 November 2, 2012 – From the conventions to the eve of the final presidential […]
The Political Party scale was determined by selecting a set of questions from the Pew Research Center’s 2012 American political values survey representing a range of political values that are each consistently associated with party identification.