short reads | Feb 5, 2007
That's the percent of Hispanics who now favor bringing troops home as soon as possible, up from 51% in January 2005, and considerably higher than the number (about one in two) among the general public who think so.
short reads | Feb 5, 2007
That's the portion of American adult internet users who have taken virtual tours of another location online -- from visits to Mars to more mundane areas of personal interest such as colleges and universities, tourist and vacation locales, historical sites, museums, real estate, and hotels.
short reads | Feb 5, 2007
That's the percent of white evangelical Americans who say they are happy that the Democrats won control of Congress in the midterm elections -- substantially fewer than among other religious groups and seculars.
short reads | Feb 1, 2007
That's the (negative) percentage of their after-tax income that Americans saved last year -- the lowest savings rate since 1933 when, in the depths of the Great Depression, one in four workers were jobless.
short reads | Jan 31, 2007
That's the number of dog owners who say they feel "close" to their pet -- beating both the number of Americans who say that about their cats (84%) and the number who say that about their fathers (74%).
short reads | Jan 23, 2007
That's the percentage of Americans who say they support President Bush's plan to send roughly 21,000 additional troops to Iraq. The plan appears to have increased partisan polarization on the Iraq debate; while most Republicans support Bush's initiative, Democrats overwhelmingly oppose it.
short reads | Jan 23, 2007
That's the portion of Americans who say they would prefer to vote for a moderate candidate from either political party; by comparison only 32% say they would prefer to vote for either a liberal Democrat or a conservative Republican.
short reads | Jan 23, 2007
That's the number of young Americans (ages 18-25) who say that getting rich is the most important goal in life for their generation in a new Pew survey; another 17% say this is the second most important goal.
short reads | Jan 23, 2007
That's the portion of campaign internet users -- adults who used the internet during the 2006 midterm election campaigns to get political news and information and discuss the races through email -- who also used the internet to create and share political content. These creators are particularly active in every type of online political activity.
short reads | Jan 23, 2007
That's the percentage of the U.S. public that now believes the United States has a responsibility to do something about the ethnic genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.