Intensely Patriotic Americans
That’s the percentage of Americans who said in a 2007 poll that they completely agree with the statement “I am patriotic,” a decline from the near-record 56% who said so in August 2003.
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Section 5: The Press and Campaign 2008
Television remains the dominant source for campaign news, with fully 68% of voters saying they got most of their presidential campaign news from TV. However, fewer voters cite television as their main campaign news source than did so in 2004 (76%). Far more voters cite cable (44%) rather than network news (18%) as their top […]
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Psychology of Bad Times Fueling Consumer Cutbacks
Overview Americans continue to render extremely bleak assessments of economic conditions, both with respect to the national economy and their own financial situations. Fully 92% of the public rates the national economy as only fair or poor, and a substantial majority (61%) judges their personal finances that way. Both measures are among the most negative […]
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An Increase in GOP Doubt About Global Warming Deepens Partisan Divide
The proportion of Americans who say that the earth is getting warmer has decreased modestly since January 2007, mostly because of a decline among Republicans.
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Section 3: Public Attitudes Toward Government and Business
The findings of two long-term values questions exemplify the public’s nuanced, but fundamentally positive, outlook on the country’s ability to weather the financial crisis. When asked whether there are “no real limits to growth in this country” or whether “people should learn to live with less” the public has shifted decidedly toward the latter. The […]