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Social networking sites and politics Social networking sites have become places where political conversation, debate, and proselytizing occur, especially during campaign seasons. These new arenas of political discussion have drawn attention among political activists and have been a major focus of activity particularly since the campaign of Barack Obama aggressively embraced them in the 2008 […]
Navigate this page: General Election Matchups Personal Images of the 2012 Candidates Romney’s Stable Image Romney and Cain: Traits and Characteristics GOP Candidates’ Religions Not Widely Known Impact of Romney’s Religion Parties’ Friendliness to Religion In the GOP nomination race, Romney and Cain run about even among Republicans and Republican-leaning voters (23% for Romney and […]
Deportations In recent years, deportations of immigrants have reached record levels—nearly 400,000 a year during the Obama years, according to the Department of Homeland Security (2011a). This is 30% more than the 300,000 deported annually on average during the second term of the Bush administration. And it is nearly twice as many as the 200,000 […]
On October 17, PEJ issued a detailed report assessing the tone and level of coverage of the presidential candidates from a wide swath of news outlets and blogs from May 2 through October 9. This report updates that data through November 27. In the last seven weeks, two former frontrunners (Cain and Perry) saw the […]
Overview The deadly crash of a cruise ship off of the coast of Italy and the latest developments in the 2012 presidential campaign topped the public’s news interests last week. About a quarter (26%) say they followed news about the cruise ship accident more closely than any other news. A comparable percentage (23%) say they […]
While Barack Obama may not have been formally campaigning for re-election, he was by far the leading newsmaker in the past five months. And the coverage of him during that period has been unrelentingly negative, worse than any of his potential Republican foes. He fared better, but only slightly, in the blogosphere. Several factors were […]