Pew Research Center Staff

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

Just over four-in-ten Americans can identify Stephen Colbert as a comedian and television talk show host.

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

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.

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.

Overall, about a quarter of Americans see President Obama as black; a majority see him as of mixed race.

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.