Pew Research Center Staff

“Despite the long-running and intense political contests for their attention, seven-in-ten likely voters in Iowa’s caucuses say they still find the campaign interesting, compared with 57% of likely voters in New Hampshire, 48% in South Carolina and 45% nationally.
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That the number of pentecostals in the U.S. who say they speak or pray in tongues weekly or more frequently. About half (51%) say that the services they attend frequently include people speaking in tongues, prophesying or manifesting other signs of the Spirit.

A few months before the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, only 9% of Pakistanis said that suicide attacks and other forms of violence against civilians are often or sometimes justified, a sharp decline from the 41% who expressed this view in 2004.

About 8-in-10 Republicans now say they are “pretty well satisfied” with the way things are going for them financially. By comparison, only 54% of both independents and Democrats subscribe to that view, the largest partisan gap in 20 years of Pew values surveys.

People who attend religious services weekly or more are happier (43% very happy) than those who attend monthly or less (31%); or seldom or never (26%).

A 45%-plurality of Americans say they don’t really care how they are greeted when they enter stores or businesses; 42% prefer a “Merry Christmas” greeting.

That’s the number of Pakistanis who say they are very or somewhat worried that the US could become a military threat to their country.

Majorities or pluralities in 35 of 47 nations say that people who move to the United States have a better life there.

More than more than eight-in-ten Americans say that displays of Christmas symbols such as nativity scenes and Christmas trees should be allowed on government property — as long as they are part of a display that includes symbols of other faiths and holiday traditions

That’s the percentage of Republican registered voters who say the issue of immigration will be very important to their vote. Fewer Democrats (50%) and independents (57%) say the same.