Following the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses four years ago, 40% of Americans said that the amount of press coverage it received was too much.

The biggest one-week story of the year was the May 1 killing May of Osama bin Laden by Navy Seals, which filled 69% of that week’s newshole. It was the biggest weekly story ever measured by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism since they began tracking coverage in January 2007.

One-third of voters say their own representative in Congress should not be re-elected.

More than half (52%) of combat veterans who served in the post-9/11 wars said they had suffered emotionally traumatic or distressing experiences while in the military.

Nearly three-quarters (73%) of Democrats say that what bothers them most about the tax system is their belief that wealthy people are not paying their fair share; only 38% of Republicans agree.

The religious traditions with the largest number of advocacy groups in Washington, D.C. are Catholicism (19% of all groups) and evangelical Protestantism (18% of all groups).

Nearly half (46%) of unauthorized adult immigrants in the U.S. today are parents of minor children.