Pew Research Center Staff

Just a quarter of Americans know it takes 60 votes to break a filibuster in the Senate.

On a 12-question news quiz, Americans answered an average of 5.3 questions correctly.

Strengthening the nation’s economy remains the public’s top political priority.

Dealing with global warming ranks at the bottom of the public’s policy agenda.

Nearly six-in-ten Americans are especially looking forward to the Super Bowl this year.

A third of Americans say President Obama has been paying too much attention to banks and financial institutions – more than say so about any other group tested.

Asked to state what race they are (black; white; Asian; some other race) and told they could choose as many categories as they wished, just 1% of Americans identified with more than one category.

A plurality of the public believes that gays and lesbians face “a lot” of bias — roughly double the proportions that see widespread discrimination against blacks or Hispanics.

Seven-in-ten whites and six-in-ten blacks say that the values held by blacks and whites have become more similar in the past 10 years.