Pew Research Center Staff

Two-thirds of publics across 16 countries surveyed say they like American music, movies and television, an increase of six percentage points since 2007.

There is a 35 point gap between Republicans who believe that government regulation of business usually does more harm than good and the number of Democrats who share that view.

Nearly four-in-ten (38%) of social networking site users have discovered through their friends’ postings that their political beliefs were different than they thought

When it comes to American views on government and social values, the average partisan gap has nearly doubled over the last 25 years -- from 10 percentage points in 1987 to 18 percentage points.

President Obama holds only a four-point edge (48% to 44%) across 12 of this year’s key battleground states.

More than eight-in ten (84%) of veterans of the post-9/11 wars say the American public has little or no understanding of the problems faced by those in the military, an assessment with which pre-9/11 veterans and the public shares.

During the five-year period from 2005 to 2010, a total of 1.4 million Mexicans immigrated to the United States, down by more than half from the 3 million who had done so in the five-year period of 1995 to 2000.

Two-thirds of Americans say that shootings like the one that took place in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater in July are just the isolated acts of troubled individuals.

More than four-in-ten (44%) veterans of the post-9/11 wars say that re-entering civilian life was very or somewhat difficult, a higher number than among those who served in earlier conflicts.

Nearly two-thirds of voters say they have already seen or heard commercials about Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, although relatively few say they have seen a lot of ads.