Pew Research Center Staff

That’s the percent of the American public who say that generally speaking most people can be trusted. But a slightly larger number, 50%, say that “you can’t be too careful in dealing with people.”

That’s the number of Americans who now say they want their congressional representative to support a bill calling for a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq by August 2008. Just 33% want their representative to oppose it.

That’s the number of states that have expanded protections for property owners and curbed government’s powers to condemn private land for economic development.

That’s the proportion of U.S. adults who completely agree with the statement: “I have old-fashioned values about family and marriage” — down from 53% in 1999.

Nearly six-in-ten (59%) of all Hispanic adults in this country consider the cell phone a necessity, rather than a luxury, compared with fewer than half of non-Hispanic whites (46%) and non-Hispanic blacks (46%), a Pew survey finds.

That’s the percentage of US adults who now say they hold a favorable view of the Republican Party, down 15 points since January 2001.

That’s the percentage of black college graduates who access the internet — the highest proportion of any demographic group recorded in a recent Pew survey.

Nearly four-in-ten Americans (39%) say they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who is “Christian,” the second most positive trait tested, behind only “military service” (48%).