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June 25, 2009
Perils of Polling in Election '08
by Scott Keeter, Jocelyn Kiley, Leah Christian and Michael Dimock, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press


June 24, 2009
Pollwatch: Comparing the Polls on Spending and the Deficit


June 5, 2009
Gen Next Squeezed By Recession, But Most See Better Times Ahead
Young Are More Liberal in Views of Gov’t, Traditional Values


June 2, 2009
Public Backs Affirmative Action, But Not Minority Preferences


May 7, 2009
Top of the Mind Impressions of Obama
The New President ... In a Word


April 29, 2009
GOP Party Identification Slips Nationwide and in Pennsylvania
No Indication of Further Democratic Gains


April 22, 2009
Will Obama Ride Reagan's Ratings Roller Coaster?
by Andrew Kohut, President, Pew Research Center
Special to the New York Times


April 2, 2009
Partisan Gap in Obama Job Approval Widest in Modern Era


April 1, 2009
No Decline in Belief That Obama is a Muslim
Nearly One-in-Five White Evangelicals Think So


March 31, 2009
Obama Unlikely to Find a Quick Fix for U.S. Global Image
by Andrew Kohut, President, Pew Research Center


March 26, 2009
Unusually Wide Gap in 'Satisfaction,' 'Right Direction' Measures


February 26, 2009
Newspapers Face a Challenging Calculus
Online Growth, but Print Losses are Bigger


February 19, 2009
One-In-Five Homeowners Feels "Underwater" On Mortgages


February 5, 2009
On Darwin's 200th Birthday, Americans Still Divided About Evolution
by Scott Keeter, Director of Survey Research, Pew Research Center, and Juliana Horowitz, Research Associate, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press


February 3, 2009
Limbaugh Holds onto his Niche -- Conservative Men


January 29, 2009
Dems' Favorability Advantage Widens
Views of Congress Negative, More Polarized


January 29, 2009
Ideological Gaps Over Israel on Both Sides of Atlantic


January 21, 2009
Who Expects To Gain -- And Lose -- Under Obama


December 18, 2008
Calling Cell Phones In '08 Pre-Election Polls


December 16, 2008
What a Year! People-Press Poll Reports in 2008


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