Obama Not Tough Enough
A sizable minority of voters (43%) say Obama’s approach to foreign policy would not be tough enough.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
A sizable minority of voters (43%) say Obama’s approach to foreign policy would not be tough enough.
One-in-five online adults have used a search engine to find information about a co-worker, professional colleague, or business competitor.
Among married adult Americans, 27% are in religiously mixed marriages.
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.
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%).
More than a third of adults say that their home address is available online.
Wealth holds a great attraction for the young, according to a recent Pew Social Trends survey, with 20% of all adults under age 30 saying being wealthy is a top priority for them — easily the largest proportion of any age group.
Nearly half (48%) of Americans of the Hindu faith have a post-graduate education.
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.
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.
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