Independents Give Low Ratings to Ryan, But Are More Negative on Biden
A plurality of independents (42%) rate Mitt Romney’s choice of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate “only fair” or “poor,” but even more rate Joe Biden’s performance negatively.
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A plurality of independents (42%) rate Mitt Romney’s choice of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate “only fair” or “poor,” but even more rate Joe Biden’s performance negatively.
If asked to choose between a job with higher pay and one with more security, 56% of employed young adults would pick the position with more job security.
Despite their young age during his presidency, nearly half (48%) of Millennials say that Bill Clinton did the best job of any president in their lifetime.
Of the 22 nations surveyed before the start of the soccer tournament, a plurality in 14 countries — including every nation not picking its own country — predicted that Brazil would win the 2010 World Cup.
Roughly half of Americans know that Chief Justice Roberts is considered to be a conservative.
More Americans would rather live in a place with more McDonald’s than Starbucks.
By a ratio of nearly two-to-one, Americans say that men (46%) rather than women (24%) have the better life in this country.
A narrow majority of Democrats (53%) favor an Obama-Clinton ticket.
That’s the percentage of Americans who can name a favorite journalist or news person; in 1985, 65% of Americans could identify a favorite.
That’s the number of U.S. adults who play fantasy sports — a game in which contestants pick real professional athletes to be on their virtual teams, then compete against other virtual teams based on statistics arising from the real-world performances of the players they have chosen.
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