Politics on Twitter: One-Third of Tweets From U.S. Adults Are Political
Roughly one-quarter of American adults use Twitter. And when they share their views on the site, quite often they are doing so about politics and political issues.
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Roughly one-quarter of American adults use Twitter. And when they share their views on the site, quite often they are doing so about politics and political issues.
Roughly a quarter of American adults (23%) say they haven’t read a book in whole or in part in the past year.
Among White Americans, worship service attendance remains highly correlated with presidential vote choice.
While there has been a decades-long decline in the Christian share of U.S. adults, 88% of the voting members in the new 118th Congress identify as Christian. That is only a few points lower than their share in the late 1970s.
A majority of Republicans along with a smaller but substantial majority of Democrats believe in heaven, hell or some other form of afterlife.
Disagreements among Americans across the religious spectrum extend to personal issues, such as life priorities and gender roles in the family.
The Census Bureau estimates there were roughly 63.7 million Hispanics in the U.S. as of 2022, a new high. They made up 19% of the nation’s population.
America’s religious groups are deeply divided about Joe Biden’s performance so far, just as they were about Donald Trump throughout his term.
Americans’ views of the economy remain negative; most say prices have gotten worse while job availability has improved.
Black Americans hold multifaceted views when it comes to trust in medical research scientists: Majorities hold largely positive views of their competence, but express concern about the potential for misconduct.
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