President Obama holds only a four-point edge (48% to 44%) across 12 of this year’s key battleground states.

Two-thirds of Americans say that shootings like the one that took place in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater in July are just the isolated acts of troubled individuals.

More than four-in-ten (44%) veterans of the post-9/11 wars say that re-entering civilian life was very or somewhat difficult, a higher number than among those who served in earlier conflicts.

Nearly two-thirds of voters say they have already seen or heard commercials about Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, although relatively few say they have seen a lot of ads.

Two-thirds say they think it’s important that a president have strong religious beliefs.

A plurality of Asian Americans say they are Christians, though Asian Americans are more religiously diverse than the U.S. population as a whole

Even before the most recent fighting in Syria, many in neighboring countries wanted Bashar al-Assad to leave office