Research By Date

Earlier this month, Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee clashed with constituents and religious leaders after insisting that the 17-foot spruce inside the statehouse was a “holiday” tree. Chafee…

Michele Bachmann hasn’t stolen the spotlight from the other contenders for the Republican presidential ticket since she won the Ames straw poll last summer (except, of course, after making erroneous…

We asked Republicans who had favorable and unfavorable impressions of Mitt Romney and New Gingrich to tell us in their own words why they had a favorable or unfavorable view of each candidate.

Earlier this week, rumors began to leak out that a number of advertisers, under pressure from a Christian group called the Florida Family Association (FFA), had pulled their advertising from TLC’s n…

According to a new poll by Gallup, Americans’ fears about big government’s threat to the country’s wellbeing are at near-record highs, outstripping the potential harm posed by big business or bi…

A PRRI survey finds white evangelical voters twice as likely to strongly favor G.O.P. hopeful Newt Gingrich as they are to favor Mitt Romney.

There’s no question that atheists are not the most popular group, at least in the United States. Not only do two-thirds of Americans say that they’d be uncomfortable with an atheist president (wit…

Republican voters seem to have found a new favorite (and it’s not Mitt Romney). Newt Gingrich is now outpacing Romney in some measures of electability, and pundits are predicting that his chance…

A few weeks ago, Jesse Jackson paid a visit to a small meeting of some of the Occupy Wall Street movement’s principal organizers – and, to their surprise, he began to talk about Lyndon Baines John…

Roughly one-quarter (23%) of Americans say they identify with the values of the Tea Party movement. An equal number (23%) say that the Occupy Wall Street movement shares their values. Few Americans (6…