A third of teens say they’ve texted while driving

A third of teens ages 16 and 17 say they have texted while driving and 48 percent of teens ages 12 to 17 say they have been in a car when the driver was texting, according to a new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

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Report: Tech use doesn’t add to social isolation

Americans’ love affairs with mobile phones and the Internet are not contributing factors to an increase in social isolation in the United States, according to a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

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Pew study: Nearly 1 in 5 Net users is tweeting

Nearly one in five Internet users is tweeting on Twitter or using another service to share personal and business updates, or to see updates about others, according to a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. That's an increase to 19 percent from 11 percent last spring, according to the group.

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Online video watching nearly doubles since ’06

Americans' appetite for Web video, from clips shared on YouTube to TV programs and movies, continues to soar, nearly doubling since 2006, according to a report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project released Wednesday.

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Pew study: Wireless Internet use up sharply

More Americans are accessing the Internet using wireless mobile devices such as smartphones and laptops, according to a study released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.

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Pew study cites personal tech frustrations

Feel discouraged or aggravated when your home Internet connection goes on the blink or your cell phone fritzes out, and you don’t know what to do?

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Poll: Campaign Robocalls Run Rampant

Next time you phone Aunt Betty in Des Moines and she answers with a bark, don't take it personally. Folks in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina have gotten lots of unsolicited telephone calls and visits lately from presidential campaigns. So says a telephone poll.

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AP Poll Method, Questions and Results

The Associated Press-Pew Research Center polls on the 2008 Democratic presidential race were conducted in Iowa, South Carolina, and New Hampshire, based on telephone interviews with state representative random samples of 460 likely Democratic caucus goers in Iowa, 594 likely Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire and 373 likely Democratic primary voters in South Carolina. A companion survey was conducted among 467 likely Democratic primary voters nationally.

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Scientists to Congress: You can argue about the politics all you want, but if you decide not to act on climate change, it won't be because the science wasn't strong enough.

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A majority of Americans are skeptical that diplomacy with Iran will succeed and say the U.S. should use military action if necessary to prevent the Iranian government from developing a nuclear weapon.

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A poll by the Pew Research Center found that 47 percent of Americans said abortion should be legal in all or most cases — a 7-point drop from a survey conducted by the organization one year ago.

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For most of the last two decades, a clear majority of Americans has supported the right to abortion. A new poll, though, suggests that support for abortion may have declined, with the public almost evenly divided over the issue.

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The public's assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans' views of media bias and independence now match previous lows.

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Here's the least surprising news of the week: Americans are souring on the Democratic Party. The wonder is that it's taken so long for public opinion to curdle. There's nothing agreeable about watching a determined attempt to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

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Truth Or Consequences

Obama is trying to wiggle out of the "acted stupidly" fiasco. He isn't having much success at this point, and I believe has reinforced racism in this country. Pew released a poll on Thursday, and it doesn't put Obama in a good light.

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The poll by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that 41 percent disapproved of Obama's handling of the Gates arrest, compared with 29 percent who approved.

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The first-ever, nationwide, random sample survey of Muslim Americans finds them to be largely assimilated, happy with their lives, and moderate with respect to many of the issues that have divided Muslims and Westerners around the world.

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Voters who call themselves Republicans or Democrats are increasingly turning a deaf ear to each other as partisan views harden, making the growing ranks of independents key to any long-term political gain.

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"Former Vice President Cheney (that "former" part never gets old, does it?) has some excellent advice for the Republicans: don't moderate. Don't stand for change. Defend the status quo. Stay the Bush-Cheney course."

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Released yesterday, the Pew Research Center survey entitled "Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream" sheds enormous light on the social and political landscape of this very important religious minority in America.

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The Pew poll found, as Karl Rove boasted in The Wall Street Journal, that Obama "has the most polarised early job approval of any president since surveys began tracking this 40 years ago.

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Why America Must Return to the Faith of Our Fathers

Skilled statisticians like George Barna and carefully researched studies from the Pew Reports all show a declining moral climate and a gradual but alarming number of youthful exits from the church in America. Is it chronic, should we be worried?

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One thing we've been chronicling here is the increasing disillusionment that Republicans are experiencing with their own party's Congressional leadership, and a new poll today finds that approval for GOP leaders is dropping among Republicans with astonishing speed. That's  …

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It's no surprise to anyone that the world is changing. But the facts of just how the world is changing still have the power to startle—and elude u

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A lot has been written about George W Bush's unpopularity around the globe - but what about those places where the outgoing president was popular?

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Pew: 'The overall mood of the public' has gotten worse under Bush.» On CBS' Face The Nation yesterday, host Bob Schieffer asked Vice President Cheney whether Americans were "better off now than we were eight years ago." Cheney replied that the Bush administration ha …

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Excerpt: The internet, which emerged this year as a leading source for campaign news, has now surpassed all other media except television as a main source for national and international news.

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The Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Protection's landmark report could herald welfare reform for farmed animals.

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The key takeaway from the recent Pew Report on cell phone only users was not that cell phone only respondents are different, but that even weighting landline only survey data doesn't fully account for excluding cell phone only users.

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Views of Barack Obama are more favorable than were opinions of John Kerry at a comparable time in the 2004 election cycle; two-thirds of all registered voters (66%) say they have a favorable impression of Obama, compared with just 31% who have an unfavorable opinion.

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While cloud computing rises in popularity, many people have reservations about how their personal data might be used.

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Well, this certainly won't lead to any insufferable late-night smugness: "The results of the new Pew Survey on News Consumption (taken every two years and released this afternoon) suggest that viewers of the 'fake news' programs 'The Daily Show ' and 'The Colbert Re …

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