Offshore Drilling Support One Year after Gulf Oil Spill
In a survey taken roughly one year after the oil spill in the Gulf, a 57%-majority of Americans favored allowing more oil and gas drilling in U.S. waters, up 13 points from last summer.
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Bring Troops Home from Afghanistan
Half the public favors removing U.S. and NATO troops from Afghanistan as soon as possible.
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Are views of marriage affected by the type of family people grew up in?
Senior research staff answer questions from readers relating to all the areas covered by our seven projects, ranging from polling techniques and findings, to media, technology, religious, demographic and global attitudes trends.
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Balancing Budgets: Is Medicare a Solution? Is it a Problem?
Few Americans know that Medicare is a sizable chunck of the federal government’s budget. Regardless, most oppose changing it to reduce the deficit.
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Does Islam Encourage Violence?
In a poll taken prior to recent Koran-burning-related violence in Afghanistan, the U.S. public divided (40% yes, 42% no) over whether Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence among its believers.
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Evangelical Support for Israel
Nearly two-thirds of white evangelical Protestants (64%) say helping to protect Israel should be a very important policy goal for the U.S. in the Middle East, compared with 34% of white mainline Protestants and 36% of white Catholics.
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How big a proportion of the American public is the Tea Party?
Senior research staff answer questions from readers relating to all the areas covered by our seven projects, ranging from polling techniques and findings, to media, technology, religious, demographic and global attitudes trends.
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Sobering News for Newspapers
Sixteen of the top 20 U.S. newspapers lost overall audience — including online — in 2010.
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No 2012 GOP Front-Runner
Among possible candidates for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, four (Romney, Huckabee, Palin and Gingrich) are supported by more than 10% of Republican voters and none garners the support of more than one-in-five GOP voters.
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Favorable First Lady
Nearly seven-in-ten Americans have a favorable view of Michelle Obama.