As has been the case for some time, Americans are close to evenly divided between those who rate their personal finances as only fair or poor (51%) and those who say they are excellent or good (47%).

Cited by 19% of Muslim Americans, prejudice and discrimination lead the list of the biggest problems that U.S. Muslims say they face, followed by being viewed as terrorists, ignorance about Islam and negative stereotyping.

Among married adult Americans, 27% are in religiously mixed marriages.

One-in-five online adults have used a search engine to find information about a co-worker, professional colleague, or business competitor.

That’s roughly the ratio of the amount of coverage Michelle Obama has received this year compared with coverage of Cindy McCain

About a quarter of registered voters (26%) say they think McCain is too old to be president, and this proportion rises to nearly a third (32%) when voters are informed that he is currently 71 years old.

More than three-quarters of Americans have heard at least a little about the problems in the financial markets involving investment banks but, among this large segment of the public, fully 80% say the government has done only a fair job or a poor job addressing problems in the nation’s financial markets.

Nearly half (48%) of Americans of the Hindu faith have a post-graduate education.

More than 270,000 Oregonians have already cast their ballots via mail for today’s primary.