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This report includes survey data from several sources, including newly released results from a survey conducted June 28-July 9, 2012, by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, among a national sample of 2,973 adults. The new survey is based on […]
Taken together, this amounts to a highly negative narrative about both candidates in this campaign. The master narratives about Obama were 72% negative. The master narratives about Romney were 71% negative. Only once before has PEJ seen a race that was depicted as negatively, the 2004 contest between Bush and Kerry. That year 75% of […]
The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted September 7-9, 2012 among a national sample of 1,012 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (604 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 408 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 189 who had no landline […]
The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted September 7-9, 2012 among a national sample of 1,012 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (604 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 408 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 189 who had no landline […]
At this stage in the campaign, Barack Obama is in a strong position compared with past victorious presidential candidates. With an eight-point lead over Mitt Romney among likely voters, Obama holds a bigger September lead than the last three candidates who went on to win in November, including Obama four years ago.
Overview 2012 Election Voter Preference Trends Track voter preferences for Obama vs. Romney overall and by demographic group among registered voters. Mitt Romney no longer trails Barack Obama in the Pew Research Center’s presidential election polling. By about three-to-one, voters say Romney did a better job than Obama in the Oct. 3 debate, and the […]
About this Study This report is based on the findings of a survey on Americans’ use of the Internet. The results in this report are based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International from July 16 to August 7, 2012, among a sample of 2,253 adults, age 18 and older. […]