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...polls are to be trusted, the nation's top five concerns going into the 2008 Presidential election are the war in Iraq (by far the biggest issue), health care, the economy, immigration and the environment. Education, according the most recent Gallup data, is a second-tier issue, tied for sixth place with national security, terrorism and Social Security. But some powerful forces are about to unleash a $60 million effort to move it up on the nation's agenda and to compel the candidates to talk about fixing U.S. schools...
...poll found that Democratic youngsters, unlike the rest of their party, support Obama—the junior Democratic senator from Illinois—over New York Senator Hillary Clinton. Among the Democrats’ youngest voters, Obama leads Clinton 35 to 28 percent. According the latest national Gallup poll of Democratic voters of all ages, Clinton leads Obama by five percent points, outside the three percent margin of error. Young Republicans, however, appear prepared to vote with the party faithful, preferring Giuliani over Arizona Senator John McCain and former Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney in similar portions to the overall...
According to Religious Literacy, polls show that nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the Bible holds the answers to "all or most of life's basic questions," but pollster George Gallup has dubbed us "a nation of biblical illiterates." Only half of U.S. adults know the title of even one Gospel. Most can't name the Bible's first book. The trend extends even to Evangelicals, only 44% of whose teens could identify a particular quote as coming from the Sermon on the Mount...
...public’s response to the 1929 publication of “Middletown”—a best-selling anthropological study of a Midwestern community—the search for the “average American” in the public opinion polls of George Gallup and Elmo Roper in the 1930s and 1940s, and the controversy stirred up by the publication of the Kinsey Reports in 1948 and 1953. Her analysis focuses on how the development of surveys and statistics affected the understanding of social science in the mainstream and gave Americans a yardstick to measure...
...Curious about the reason for this obsession with feedback, I rang a couple of experts. Murali Swamy, the Bangalore-based head of research and consulting at research firm Gallup India reckons it has to do with the fact that free enterprise is relatively new in India, and that only in the past decade or so have firms been forced to begin thinking about their customer. In the old days, companies "used to have people queued up outside their offices to whom they would dole out their products depending on favoritism and availability. Now it's a market of supply...