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    Romney’s Strong Debate Performance Erases Obama’s Lead

    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 […]

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    Mobile Health 2012

    Half of smartphone owners use their devices to get health information and one-fifth of smartphone owners have health apps

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    For Voters It’s Still the Economy

    Overview As Barack Obama and Mitt Romney prepare for their first debate on Oct. 3, the issues at the top of the voters’ agenda have changed little since 2008. Fully 87% of registered voters say that the economy will be very important to their vote, while 83% say jobs will be very important to their […]

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    II. Hispanics and Personal Finances

    According to the Pew Hispanic survey, one-in-three Hispanics (33%) rate their personal finances as “excellent” (5%) or “good” (28%), an improvement from last year when 24% rated their finances this way. Despite an improving financial self-assessment, twice as many Hispanics today rate their personal finances as either “only fair” (50%) or “poor” (16%), as rate […]

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    A Milestone En Route to a Majority Minority Nation

    The minority groups that carried President Obama to victory yesterday by giving him 80% of their votes are on track to become a majority of the nation’s population by 2050, according to projections by the Pew Research Center. They currently make up 37% of the population, and they cast a record 28% of the votes […]

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    Photos and Videos as Social Currency Online

    46% of internet users post original photos & videos online; 41% curate photos & videos they find elsewhere on the web and post on image-sharing sites. Women are more likely than men to use Pinterest; Instagram & Tumblr attract equal shares of both.

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    The Sandwich Generation

    With an aging population and a generation of young adults struggling to achieve financial independence, the burdens and responsibilities of middle-aged Americans are increasing. Nearly half (47%) of adults in their 40s and 50s have a parent age 65 or older and are either raising a young child or financially supporting a grown child (age […]

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    Appendix: Government Programs

    This report has analyzed six large and well-known federal government entitlement programs. While our survey asks the public to self-report its use of these programs over the span of their lifetime or the lifetimes of other household members, data from the programs themselves provide a more current snapshot of recipients. Using the most recent available […]