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That’s the percentage of the U.S. public that now agree that it’s “all right for blacks and whites to date” — up six percentage points from since 2003 and 13 points from a Pew survey conducted 10 years ago.
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That’s the percentage of the U.S. public that now agree that it’s “all right for blacks and whites to date” — up six percentage points from since 2003 and 13 points from a Pew survey conducted 10 years ago.
That’s the percentage of Americans who say that religion’s influence on life in the U.S. is waning. Among these, eight in ten (79%) believe this declining religiosity is a bad thing.
That’s the percentage of Americans who think young people do not have as strong a sense of right and wrong as they did 50 years ago. While nostalgia for the old days is far from new, this finding is substantially more negative than those recorded decades ago.
That’s the share of Americans who said they had a favorable view of the National Rifle Association in a survey taken before the Virginia Tech shootings, the first time since 1994 that the favorability rating of the anti-gun-control advocacy group has crossed the 50% mark.
That’s the percentage of Americans who say they never attend religious services who voted for a Democratic House candidate in the 2006 midterm election.
That’s the percentage of Americans who believe there is solid evidence that the average temperature of the earth has been increasing over the past few decades. That number includes large majorities of every religious group: 77% of Catholics, 79% of white mainline Protestants and 70% of white evangelicals.
That’s the portion of Americans who say they would prefer to vote for a moderate candidate from either political party; by comparison only 32% say they would prefer to vote for either a liberal Democrat or a conservative Republican.
That’s the percentage of political independents who now say they approve of President Bush’s job performance. Independent voters proved crucial to the Democrats’ victory on Nov. 7.
That’s the number of American adults who say they have received a definite answer to a specific prayer request. About one-in-four say they have received a direct revelation from God.
That’s the percentage of registered voters who expressed concern about whether their ballots would be tallied properly in Tuesday’s election.
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