About one-in-five Americans say the Democratic Party is unfriendly to religion.

Given a list of 14 programs, for only two are more than 20% of Americans in favor of decreasing government spending.

Just 3% of health care opponents cite abortion funding as their main reason for opposing legislation.

Compared with the U.S. and Western Europe, Russians are far less concerned about the potential threat from a nuclear-armed Iran.

So far in 2009 Sarah Palin has been the year’s No. 5 newsmaker.

The percentage of Americans who say the initial decision to use force in Afghanistan was the right decision has fallen from 64% at the beginning of the year to 56% on the eve of Obama’s speech.

Just over a third of Americans rate their personal finances in excellent or good shape, a 17-year low.