Grumpy Old Partisans
Older Republicans are more likely than their younger co-partisans to oppose candidates who compromise and to support those without elected experience.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Older Republicans are more likely than their younger co-partisans to oppose candidates who compromise and to support those without elected experience.
Americans are less likely to vote for a candidate who supported TARP, but split on health care reform supporters.
Half of online adults watch comedy videos online, making them the most-watched type of online video.
Among internet users, 14% have uploaded a video to the internet.
Nearly three-in-four adults say they feel “close” to their fathers — but America’s dads shouldn’t feel too smug. Not only do moms outpoll them on the intimacy scale, but the family dog tops both.
Just one-in-ten among Hispanic high school dropouts has a GED, far less than the percentages of white (29%) and black (20%) high school dropouts with GEDs.
A quarter of households have no landline service, posing a large problem for pollsters who rely on telephones to reach potential respondents.
A record four-in-ten births were to unmarried women in 2008.
In 2008, more children were born to women older than age 34 (14% of all births) than to women younger than age 20 (10%).
A plurality of Americans (46%) say two children is the ideal number for a family.
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