Pew Research Center Staff

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A majority of blacks now say that blacks who cannot get ahead in this country are mainly responsible for their own situation.