That’s the percentage of American workers who believe it would be possible for their employer to hire someone outside the country to do the job they are doing right now

That’s the percentage of white Protestant evangelicals who say that the Republican Party is friendly to religion — a decline of 14 points in the past year for a constituency that has played a pivotal role in recent elections.

That’s the proportion of Americans who support a constitutional amendment to ban marriages between gay and lesbian couples. Even among groups most strongly opposed to gay marriage (white evangelicals, Republicans, conservatives and senior citizens), fewer than a majority favor an amendment.

That’s the number of states that will feature property rights measures on their 2006 ballots, making the issue a hot new topic on state election slates this fall.

That’s the percentage of Hispanics who are eligible voters, compared with 77% of whites and 65% of blacks.

More than 500 years after Columbus first arrived in the New World, nearly half of Americans (48%) think that the United States has had special protection from God for most of its history, according to a 2002 survey.

That’s the number of stories on Google News during the first 18 days of September that contained the word “Taliban.” That’s more than a 1000% increase over the number of stories containing that term in the first 18 days of August.

That’s the percentage of Japanese who think that China’s growing military power is a bad thing for their country. That concern is shared by large majorities of others among China’s neighbors.

That’s the percentage of Pakistanis who say that relations between the U.S. and Pakistan have improved in recent years.