Muslim Americans Who Favor Big Government
That’s the percentage of Muslim Americans who say they prefer a bigger government that provides more services (70%) over a smaller government providing fewer services (21%).
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That’s the percentage of Muslim Americans who say they prefer a bigger government that provides more services (70%) over a smaller government providing fewer services (21%).
That’s the proportion of the U.S. public that believes that it is more important to conduct stem cell research that may result in new medical cures than to avoid destroying the potential life of embryos involved in such research.
That’s the number of adults in this country who say they are living comfortably; another three-in-ten (28%) say they have enough money to meet expenses with a little left over for extras.
That’s the number of Americans who support the death penalty for persons convicted of murder, somewhat fewer than in the late 1990s, but little changed since 2001.
That’s the percentage of U.S. adults who completely (30%) or mostly (16%) agree that “books that contain dangerous ideas should be banned from public libraries” — the lowest level of support in 20 years.
That’s the percentage of Muslim Americans who say that mosques should express their views on day-to-day social and political matters, 49% of U.S. Muslims take the opposite view.
That’s the percentage of Americans who agree that “when something is run by the government, it is usually inefficient and wasteful.”
That’s the median weekly earnings of Latino workers in the second quarter of 2006 — up from $423 in the second quarter of 2005.
That’s the percentage of American adults who support finding “a middle ground” when it comes to abortion. Three-in-ten Americans believe “there’s no room for compromise when it comes to abortion laws.”
That’s the percentage of U.S. adults who used the internet during the 2006 midterm election campaigns to get political news and information and to discuss the races through email. And the number of Americans using the internet as their main source of political material doubled since the last mid-term election, rivaling the number from the 2004 presidential election year.
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