While the Clinton-Obama face-off in today’s Pennsylvania primary has claimed the bulk of media coverage, far more Americans — 36% — say the news they have been hearing about GOP presidential candidate John McCain is generally positive than say that about either of the two Democratic candidates.
Catholics are the largest religious community in Pennsylvania, making up 29% of the state’s adult population, followed by mainline Protestants at 25% and evangelical Protestants at 18%. White Catholics have been a pillar of Hillary Clinton’s voter coalition in her big-state victories to date.
Eight-in-ten Americans (79%) say they consider not reporting all income on one’s tax returns to be morally wrong, while just 5% consider it morally acceptable and 14% say it’s not a moral issue.
Nearly half (48%) of Americans, many of whom will be struggling to meet today’s deadline for filing with the IRS, say they think the tax system is either completely (19%) or mostly (29%) unfair to people like them, slightly fewer than said so in 2002.