The headline on Pew’s new 25th anniversary American Values survey is probably not surprising to anyone attuned to …
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The Candidate Religious Voters Want in 2012
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life this afternoon released a report on presidential preferences for religious groups. The polling was conducted between Sept. 22-Oct. 4, before the Cain roller coaster took off, but it still offers insight into how key Christian voting blocs will play in 2012.
Would Newt Gingrich Be Better Off Running As a Gay Man?
[Updated below, 5:25pm] The Pew Research Center released some fascinating new findings Thursday on voter opinions about the 2012 field. (Short take: they’re not terribly psyched). I’ll have more to say later on the question of whether voters are willing to vote for a Mormon. But data on two other candidate traits jumped off the page as I …
A Fiscal Wake-Up Call for the States
The financial picture is still grim in state capitals across the country. In California, for example, the once-again Gov. Jerry Brown has bailed $11 billion of red ink out of the budget, leaving him with $15 billion to go. A new poll of Golden State voters suggests that the drumbeat of fiscal calamity is starting to move citizens to …
Dispelling “Anchor Baby” Myths
The Pew Hispanic Center, which conducts stellar research on everything from health care to religion, released a report today quantifying just how many children are born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants. The report comes in the midst of a campaign by some Republicans to hold congressional hearings on whether children born to illegal …
The Millennial Voting Bloc: Waiting to be Wooed?
The group of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 could rival Yahweh for most names. Various cross sections are called the iGeneration, Generation Y, the (Inter)Net Generation, Echo Boomers, Generation Next — or, as at the Pew Research Center’s youth culture panels on Wednesday, the Millennials.
Social gurus had convened to …