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Adoption rate of e-readers surges ahead of tablet computers

Though the economy topped the mainstream news agenda, Obama’s troop drawdown announcement gave Afghanistan its biggest week of coverage in a year. And while mainstay subjects—the campaign and the Mid-East—continued to make news, the surprise arrest of one of the FBI’s most wanted dominated the end of the week.

Overview With a growing number of Americans saying they have been hearing “mostly bad” economic news, opinions about the current state of the national economy remain grim. Positive expectations regarding future economic conditions, which remained high even during the depths of the recession, have declined and now stand at their lowest point since mid-2008. Yet […]

The ongoing release of so-called SF1 data from the 2010 Census--detailed local-level tabulations about age, families, housing and other topics--has produced a wave of news stories about the changing family. Stories from newspapers in California and Pennsylvania focus especially on same-sex couples.

Only a third of the public says they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who is homosexual.

A substantial majority of Americans (68%) say it would not matter to them if a presidential candidate is Mormon.

Across party lines, most voters say they would be less likely to vote for a presidential candidate who had never before held elective office.

Nearly six-in-ten Republicans say they would be less likely to support a candidate who had had an extra-marital affair