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    Public Tracks Oil Spill, Media Focuses More On Times Square

    Summary of Findings Americans tracked the worsening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico more closely than other major news stories last week, while the media focused on both the underwater oil leak and the investigation into the attempted car bombing in New York’s Times Square. A third of the public (33%) says they most […]

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    About the Survey

    Results for this survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International among a national sample of 994 adults living in the continental United States, 18 years of age or older, from May 6-9, 2010 (662 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 332 were interviewed on […]

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    Broad Approval For New Arizona Immigration Law

    Overview The public broadly supports a new Arizona law aimed at dealing with illegal immigration and the law’s provisions giving police increased powers to stop and detain people who are suspected of being in the country illegally. Fully 73% say they approve of requiring people to produce documents verifying their legal status if police ask […]

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    Throw the Bums Out

    Just four-in-ten voters want to see their representative reelected this year.

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    How Many Undocumented Immigrants?

    The Census Bureau does not ask U.S. residents for their immigration status when they are counted in the 2010 Census or other population surveys.

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    Oil Spill Seen As Ecological Disaster; Government, BP Responses Faulted

    Overview A majority of Americans see the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico as a major environmental disaster, but nearly as many voice optimism that efforts to control the spill will succeed. The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted May 6-9 among 994 adults, […]

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    Who Leads the GOP?

    When asked to name the leader of the GOP, seven-in-ten Americans say they don’t know (52%) or volunteer “nobody” (18%).