Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
More than three-quarters of Americans have heard at least a little about the problems in the financial markets involving investment banks but, among this large segment of the public, fully 80% say the government has done only a fair job or a poor job addressing problems in the nation’s financial markets.
About a quarter of registered voters (26%) say they think McCain is too old to be president, and this proportion rises to nearly a third (32%) when voters are informed that he is currently 71 years old.
That’s roughly the ratio of the amount of coverage Michelle Obama has received this year compared with coverage of Cindy McCain
More than 270,000 Oregonians have already cast their ballots via mail for today’s primary.
At the start of this year’s election season, only 22% of U.S. adults said that gay marriage will be important to their vote in the coming elections.
More than a third (37%) of papal coverage focused on the sex abuse scandal.
By a margin of more than six-to-one (61% to 9%), the U.S. public now says free trade agreements result in job losses rather than in the creation of new jobs.
That’s the proportion of African Americans who say that the income gap between whites and blacks has widened over the last decade.
Two of every three women ages 50-64 say today’s mothers are doing a worse job as parents than mothers did 20 or 30 years ago — the highest level of criticism among any age-sex group in the US population.
Nearly half of all American Catholics under age 30 are Hispanic (45%).
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