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    Necessary Cars

    Detroit may take some comfort from the fact that nine out of ten (91%) Americans see their cars as a necessity, essentially the same number who said so a decade earlier (93%).

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    Hajj to Mecca

    Six-in-ten American Muslims say making a pilgrimage to Mecca is very important.

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    News To You

    About a quarter of news consumers are Integrators, mixing traditional and online sources of media.

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    Podcasts Proliferate

    About one-in-five internet users have downloaded a podcast.

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    Tattooed Gen Nexters

    That’s the proportion of young Americans (ages 18-25) of both sexes who have had themselves tatooed. About half in this age group have done at least one of the following: had a tatoo, dyed their hair an untraditional color or had their bodies pierced in a place other than their ear lobe.

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    God Gap

    There was a 24-point gap in Obama support between voters who never attend worship services and those that attend weekly.

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    TV Still King of News

    More Americans use TV (57%) to consume news than any other media source.

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    A Man’s World

    By a ratio of nearly two-to-one, Americans say that men (46%) rather than women (24%) have the better life in this country.