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Bush, 45% to 37%, with 17% supporting Perot.
Clinton had a narrower lead among men (41% Clinton, 38% Bush); 21% of men voted for Perot, according to exit polls conducted after the 1992 election.
Still, the gender gap was significant: Women backed Bill Clinton over George H.W.
The gender gap in 2008 – the seven-point difference between women and men in support for the Democratic candidate – was comparable to the gap in most elections since 1980.
Even when Democratic candidates failed to garner a majority of the women’s vote – as in 1980, 1984 and 1988 – they still drew more support from women than from men.
The election of 1992 was unusual because of Ross Perot’s popular third-party campaign.
Between 1921 and 1930 support increased to it's peak, apart from a blip in the early 1920's for a couple of years.
Support declined once again post 1930 and that lasted until 1945-46.
There was a sharp drop in support between 1918 and 1921.
During the late 1970's their support grew again but this was brief had fallen to an all time low in the year 2001.
Support more or less remained at that low point until about 2018 when it rose sharply for for a year, only to start falling again around 2019.
In the 1940's and 50's support rose again before falling between the late 50's until the mid 1970's.
Voter preferences are more closely divided between Obama and Romney than they were in May, when Obama led Romney by seven points (49% to 42%).
The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted June 7-17 among 2,013 adults, including 1,563 registered voters, finds that the contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is shaping up to be a close one.
Yet it is notable that in eight general election matchups since last October, Romney has never led Obama.
Currently, 50% favor Obama while 46% back Romney.
Not only is the horserace nearly even – 50% of registered voters currently support Obama or lean toward him, while 46% support or lean toward Romney – but each party holds distinctly different advantages.
Of the 12 stressful events that we studied, on average, women were aware of a larger number of events that had occurred among people they knew.
On average, men were aware of 7% fewer stressful events among their closest social ties.
By contrast, among all Hispanics, 55% identify as Catholic, 22% identify as Protestant, and about two-in-ten (18%) are unaffiliated.
Two-in-ten Puerto Ricans are religiously unaffiliated.
About three-in-ten (29%) Puerto Ricans are Protestant, and among all Puerto Ricans, 8% are mainline Protestants and 22% are evangelical Protestants.
A 2013 Pew Research Center survey of Hispanic adults finds that some 45% of Puerto Rican adults identify themselves as Catholic.
Paypal was the most popular digital wallet in the US in 2016.
Most popular digital wallets according to consumers in the United States as of December 2016 was PayPal with 0.75 share of respondents.
Least popular digital wallets according to consumers in the United States as of December 2016 was Samsung Pay with 0.06 share of respondents.
Most popularity of digital wallets was below 0.2 share of respondents.
The least popular digital wallet was Samsung pay.
Thirty-seven percent say the current economic situation is good, up 20 percentage points from last spring.
Again, men (45%) are more likely than women (28%) to say that the economy is doing well.
Though 51% still believe the economy is in poor shape, this number has dropped 30 percentage points in only a year.
This increasingly positive attitude toward national conditions can also be seen in the public’s improving economic assessments, as the country recovers from the global recession that began in 2008.
With nearly 160,000 arrivals so far in 2016, Italy has received almost the same number of refugees as Greece this year, and by year’s end it may surpass Greece as Europe’s new focal point for refugee flows, according to recent statistics from the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees.
Italy only needs to receive about 10,000 more refugees by Dec. 31 to overtake Greece in number of refugee arrivals in 2016.
Already, Italy has received more refugees than it did in all of 2015 (153,842) and is quickly approaching its 2014 refugee total (170,100).
Hard times can act to bring families together, and the Great Recession of 2007-09 was no different: The number of children living with a grandparent surged after the onset of the recession, as did the number of children whose primary caregiver was that grandparent.
Both trends stabilized at higher level after the recession’s official end in mid-2009.
A Pew Research Center analysis of Census data found that 7.7 million U.S. children — about 10% of all children in the country — were living in the same household as at least one of their grandparents in 2011, and for 3 million that grandparent also was their primary caregiver.
Meanwhile, compared with those in many Western European countries, greater shares of Americans were either lower income (26%) or upper income (15%).
Middle-class shares ranged from 64% in Spain to 80% in Denmark and Norway in 2010.
The U.S. is the only country in which fewer than six-in-ten adults were in the middle class.
The middle class is a significant presence in the Western European countries analyzed, even as it is shrinking in many countries.
In 2010, households in the U.S. were more economically divided than households in the Western European countries examined in this report.
The share of adults who were lower income was lowest in the Netherlands (13%) and highest in Spain (24%), and upper-income shares ranged from 6% in Norway to 14% in the UK.
The report examined the 658 journalism projects funded through Kickstarter, one of the largest single platforms for crowdfunding journalism, from April 28, 2009 (the day it launched) through Sept. 15, 2015.
A new study by Pew Research Center examines one of these emerging tools: crowdfunded journalism, in which projects can be proposed and funded through online appeals to the public.
One striking characteristic of these projects is the wide range of initiatives that have received funding, which we explore here.
In the digital age, new tools and pathways that attract the public’s eye – from YouTube to Twitter – can quickly be noticed by journalists and news organizations as important parts of the news landscape.
Though the revenue involved and amount of content produced are nowhere near what comes through the more mainstream media, crowdfunding can help bring to reality work that might otherwise not see the light of day.
Partisanship plays a role in public opinion of the impact of mobile technology.
Adults who support Modi’s BJP are more likely to say mobile phones have had a good influence on politics (49%) than those who support the Congress party (33%).
Last September, the president of the BJP encouraged the party’s supporters to spread pro-BJP messages on WhatsApp and other social media platforms – whether those messages are “true or fake.”
The line chart shows that the statuary interest rate was at 0.08 in 2013 and rose steadily half way through the year to reach the highest rate seen.
It stayed as 0.08 till July 2020.
The half-year value of the statutory interest rate in the Netherlands was at below 0.08 on January 2013, but it started to grow quickly to about 0.09 in the middle of the year 2013.
Then it started to slowly drop, and it was 0.08 in 2015.
However, it dropped back down to 0.08 in 2015 and remained here until 2020.
Fewer American express strong concerns about the complexity of the tax system (39% say they are bothered a lot by this), the amount they pay in taxes (27%) and whether poor people pay their fair share in taxes (16%).
Overall, about six-in-ten Americans say they are bothered “a lot” by the feeling that some corporations (62%) and wealthy people (60%) do not pay their fair share in taxes.
And in Australia and Japan, half of adults or more say their nation should follow its own interests, even when other countries strongly disagree.
Views are more divided in Italy and Denmark.
A median of 58% say their country should take other countries’ interests into account when dealing with major international issues, even if it means making compromises.
Majorities hold this view in 10 of 14 countries polled.
People in most surveyed nations embrace cooperation with other countries when dealing with major international issues.
Among Muslims, 82% say they would be uncomfortable with a child marrying a Jew, and 75% say the same about a child marrying a Christian.
Christians and Druze also are strongly opposed to religious intermarriage.
Discomfort with the idea of a child marrying outside one’s own religious circle is widespread among Israelis.
Nearly all Jews (97%) say they would not be comfortable with their child marrying a Muslim, and 89% say this about a child marrying a Christian.
About six-in-ten (61%) say that “some people taking advantage of the situation to engage in criminal behavior” contributed a “great deal” to the unrest, while 56% say the same about tensions between the African-American community and the police.
However, majorities say all five factors mentioned in the survey – including anger over the death of Freddie Gray, poverty in some neighborhoods and the initial response by city officials – contributed at least a fair amount to the unrest.
For instance, 18% say they have changed the way they use email “a great deal” or “somewhat”; 17% have changed the way they use search engines; 15% say they have changed the way they use social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook; and 15% have changed the way they use their cell phones.
25% of those who are aware of the surveillance programs (22% of all adults) say they have changed the patterns of their own use of various technological platforms “a great deal” or “somewhat” since the Snowden revelations.
It's clear that the state of San Paulo has the higher number of car thefts in more than 150 thousands cases, followed by Rio de Janeiro.
Basically the big states got the highest numbers in car theffts cases.
We can observe that the less cases are visible in the state of roraima, amapa and acre.
The graphic the number in thousands of car thefts in Brazil by state on the year 2018.
Most say Trump is arrogant, intolerant and dangerous, but a majority also sees him as a strong leader.
They do, however, see Trump as a strong leader – a median of 55% across the nations polled describe him this way.
Survey respondents were read a list of positive and negative characteristics and asked whether each one describes Trump.
Around the globe, people tend to associate the American leader with all of the negative characteristics tested: Most say he is arrogant, intolerant and dangerous, while relatively few think of him as well-qualified or as someone who cares about ordinary people.
Describing Trump as charismatic is more common, though global publics on balance do not think of him as charismatic, either.
It is apparent that the number of COVID deaths is more constant in the winter months and decreases in the summer months.
Between 2013 and 2014 there was a sharp increase in the revenue from anti infectives.
From 2018 to 2024 the revenue from anti infectives has increased.
Asked which of six pressing issues should be the most important priority for their country, a median of 38% across the nations polled name health care, including more than four-in-ten in Burkina Faso, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda.
In eight of nine countries, improving health care is the number one priority.
All three are recorded as being above 0.4.
is WhatsApp, followed closely by Uber, with UTube coming not too far behind.
The remainder fall into the below 0.2 category.
The most popular app.
Inevitably Facebook is in there, at 0.3, the next most popular, along with Messenger, Bolt and Google Play.
The election is the public’s top news story this week: Fully 60% say they followed news about the presidential election very closely.
Nearly four-in-ten (38%) followed news about the debate in Washington over the possible spending cuts and tax increases very closely; 41% paid very close attention to economic news.
Interest in news about the fiscal cliff nearly equals interest in news about the economy.
That is the same as the percentage tracking election news during the week that Obama was elected president four years ago (60%).
Nearly half (46%) followed news about the impact of Hurricane Sandy very closely, down slightly from 53% a week prior.
In July, just 23% followed news about the possible tax and spending changes very closely.
On the whole society has an influence on happiness.
The majority of respondants believe that society has a moderate (5, more than half) to large impact on their happiness.
Few respondants feel that society has little impact.
Though growth in smartphone ownership has occurred up and down the economic spectrum, adoption still varies significantly by household income.
However, that variation is unevenly distributed across different age groups.
Younger adults—regardless of income level—are very likely to be smartphone owners.
Conversely, for older adults smartphone ownership is more of an “elite” phenomenon: smartphones tend to be quite prevalent at the upper end of the income distribution but much less common among those with lower income levels.
In the Feb. 5 primary in California, Clinton’s winning margin of votes among Latinos was slightly larger than her statewide tally over Obama.
In Tuesday’s primary in Texas, Clinton’s winning margin of votes among Latinos was nearly three times as great as her overall statewide lead in votes.
She also would not have carried a third state—New Mexico—without strong Latino support.
Sen. Hillary Clinton would not have won primaries in the nation’s two largest states—California and Texas—if Latinos had not turned out in such large numbers and if they had not voted so heavily in her favor, according to an analysis of exit polling data.
In contrast, Hispanics favored Clinton 62% to 36%, and they were 35% of all voters.
In all three states, Latinos accounted for at least 30% of the total votes cast in the Democratic primary, and Clinton outpolled Sen. Barack Obama among Latinos by a ratio of about two-to-one.
Among Hispanics, however, her winning margin of votes was nine times as great as her overall statewide vote lead.
In a tight race, Clinton won New Mexico by only one percentage point.
However, Latinos accounted for 32% of votes cast in the Texas primary, up from 24% in 2004.
Based on calculations made using exit poll data, the vote for Clinton and Obama among all non-Latino voters was a statistical dead heat of 46% to 46%.
They favored Clinton over Obama by 67% to 32%.
They favored Clinton over Obama by 66% to 32%.
However, Hispanics made up 30% of the Democratic primary electorate in California, up from 16% in the 2004 Democratic primary.
Non-Hispanics voted for Obama 56% to 41%.
Calculations based on exit poll data show that Obama carried Texas by 55% to 44% among all non-Latino voters.
His rating is comparable to George W. Bush’s (45%) at the same point early in his second term and is much lower than Bill Clinton’s 60% rating in February 1997.
Obama’s job approval measure has fallen eight points since December, from 55% to 47%.
In 1965, 84% of Americans were non-Hispanic whites.
At the time, relatively few anticipated the size or demographic impact of the post-1965 immigration flow (Gjelten, 2015).
The Pew Research analysis shows that without any post-1965 immigration, the nation’s racial and ethnic composition would be very different today: 75% white, 14% black, 8% Hispanic and less than 1% Asian.
As a result of its changed makeup and rapid growth, new immigration since 1965 has altered the nation’s racial and ethnic composition.
The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act made significant changes to U.S. immigration policy by sweeping away a long-standing national origins quota system that favored immigrants from Europe and replacing it with one that emphasized family reunification and skilled immigrants.
By 2015, that share had declined to 62%.
Asians also saw their share rise, from less than 1% in 1965 to 6% in 2015.
Meanwhile, the Hispanic share of the U.S. population rose from 4% in 1965 to 18% in 2015.
In absolute numbers, the roughly 59 million immigrants who arrived in the U.S. between 1965 and 2015 exceed those who arrived in the great waves of European-dominated immigration during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Between 1840 and 1889, 14.3 million immigrants came to the U.S., and between 1890 and 1919, an additional 18.2 million arrived (see Table 1 for details).
Two-thirds of those polled about radical life extension thought the option would only be available to the wealthy.
Again, this wariness is matched and even exceeded in the human enhancement survey; more than seven-in-ten adults said brain, blood and gene enhancements would be employed before their effects were fully understood.
At least as many in the human enhancement survey shared this concern, saying that moving forward with the three emerging technologies outlined in the survey – brain implants, synthetic blood and gene editing for babies – would increase inequality because they would only be available to those who are well-off.
For many people, both potential advancements also raised concerns about increasing social inequality.
Two-thirds of American adults also said scientists would offer life extension technologies before their impact was fully understood.
As of March 2012, 11.7 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the United States, according to a new preliminary Pew Research Center estimate based on U.S. government data.
The sharp decline in the U.S. population of unauthorized immigrants that accompanied the 2007-2009 recession has bottomed out, and the number may be rising again.
The estimated number of unauthorized immigrants peaked at 12.2 million in 2007 and fell to 11.3 million in 2009, breaking a rising trend that had held for decades.
Although there are indications the number of unauthorized immigrants may be rising, the 2012 population estimate is the midpoint of a wide range of possible values and in a statistical sense is no different from the 2009 estimate.
Across the 37 nations polled, a median of 42% express confidence in her, while 31% say they lack confidence.
Still, even among those who like right-wing parties, confidence in Trump is limited, and there is no Western European country in which a majority of right-wing party supporters offer a positive assessment of the American president’s leadership in world affairs.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the only world leader included in the survey who receives more positive than negative reviews.
Ratings for Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin are mostly negative, and Trump receives even more unfavorable assessments than both of them.
Trump gets more negative ratings globally than Merkel, Xi or Putin.
By contrast, the share of Americans who support airstrikes remains virtually unchanged: Just 28% favor U.S. military airstrikes against Syria in response to reports that its government used chemical weapons.
The new survey by the Pew Research Center and USA TODAY, conducted Sept. 4-8, 2013 among 1,506 adults nationwide, finds that this growing opposition to Syrian airstrikes is intense: 45% say they oppose airstrikes very strongly.
That is roughly three-times the percentage (16%) that strongly favors airstrikes.
Over just the past week, the share of Americans who oppose U.S. airstrikes in Syria has surged 15 points, from 48% to 63%, as many who were undecided about the issue have turned against military action.
The highest retail sales excluding fuel in Great Britain was in 2017 with over 350 billion GDP.
The X-axis increases in increments of 2 years.
The Y-axis increases in increments of 100 billion GDP retail sales excluding fuel.
There has been a steady increase in sales excluding fuel in Great Britain from 2008 to 2017.
The lowest retail sales excluding fuel in Great Britain was during 2008 with approximately 280 billion GDP.
Two-thirds of those who live within 25 miles of a coastline (67%) say this, compared with 59% of those who live 25 to 299 miles from a coast and half of those who live 300 miles or more from a coast.
These geographical differences exist within the parties too: Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents who live within 25 miles of a coastline are more likely than those who live at least 300 miles inland to say climate change is affecting their local community.
Most Americans (59%) say climate change is affecting their local community at least some, especially those who live near a coast.
The same is true among Republicans and Republican leaners.
Between 2011 and 2016, the number of Americans who read books on tablet computers has increased nearly fourfold (from 4% to 15%), while the share who read books on smartphones has more than doubled (from 5% to 13%).
The share of Americans who read books on desktop or laptop computers has also increased, although by a more modest amount: 11% of Americans now do this, up from 7% in 2011.
Tablet computer and smartphone ownership have each increased dramatically in recent years, and a growing share of Americans are using these multipurpose mobile devices – rather than dedicated e-readers – to read books.
But they have become more politically and ideologically polarized.
However, there are wider differences in how conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats see the NRA’s influence.
Currently, 40% say the NRA has too much influence over gun control laws in this country, 17% say it has too little influence, while 36% say it has the right amount of influence.
The survey finds that overall public views of the political influence of the National Rifle Association (NRA) have not changed much in recent years.
Among Republicans and Republican leaners, just 13% of conservatives say the NRA has too much influence, down from 32% in 2000.
By contrast, 68% of liberal Democrats and Democratic leaners say the organization has too much influence, compared with 57% who said this in 2000.
In fact, it is also comparable to opinion about the NRA’s influence in 2000.
This balance of opinion is virtually unchanged from May 2013.
There was a huge decrease in budget balance from 2019-2020, increasing from -0.02 to -0.17 approx.
In contrast, all other years between 2015 and 2019, budget balance in relation to gross domestic product was below -0.05.
2020 is a clear outlier in this chart, with budget balance in relation to gross domestic product falling to below -0.15.
The worst year was 2020.
In years 2021 to 2025, year on year budget balance in relation to gross domestic product falls, from just above -0.10 to above -0.05.
Americans broadly agree that elected officials should avoid using heated language because it could encourage violence.
Nearly three-quarters of Americans (73%) say this, while just a quarter believe that elected officials “should be able to use heated language to express themselves without worrying about whether some people may act on what they say.”
No more than about a third of Republicans say any of these groups will lose influence with Trump in the White House (33% gays and lesbians, 32% Hispanics).
By contrast, only about four-in-ten Republicans anticipate that the influence of these groups will increase (43% wealthy people, 40% whites, 36% men).
Republicans and Democrats differ substantially in views of how most of these groups will fare during Trump’s presidency.
On the other hand, 83% of Democrats expect wealthy people to gain influence in Trump’s presidency, while close to two-thirds say the influence of men (65%) and whites (64%) will grow.
Most Republicans expect that these groups will either gain influence or not be affected by Trump’s presidency.
Sizable majorities of Democrats say a number of groups will lose influence with Trump in the White House: 81% say the influence of the poor will decline; 78% say the same about Hispanics; 74% each say women and gays and lesbians will lose influence; and 73% say this about blacks.