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Opinion: 4 Lessons About Voting from the 2010 Elections
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 15) -- Ten years after Bush v. Gore and the spectacle of the nation's most important political contest going into overtime, the country's voting experience this Nov. 2 highlights the changes America has seen since 2000. Here are some key lessons we have learned about election reform -- looking back and forward: New machines aren't the only answer. In the immediate aftermath of the 2000 election, the prime targets for criticism were the machines -- specifically, the punch card ballots whose hanging, swinging and dimpled chads were a source of legal and popular fascination. The Help ...
The Results Are In: The Media Officially Loves (Covering) Christine O'Donnell
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News
(Nov. 2) -- Has navel-gazing reached an all-time low? Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study of the most news covered candidates. And the result is that everyone in the media is now covering a study of what they already covered. Pretty meta. Seriously though, Christine O'Donnell has the most media coverage by a long shot. Nobody knew her name two months ago. How did she do that? The Delaware Tea Party Senate candidate -- who has given very limited national media access -- was the lead figure in 160 news stories over the past 11 months, despite only seriously making ...
Many Americans Know Little About Religion -- Even Their Own -- Poll Finds
By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailyHow much does it matter that most Americans don't know that Maimonides was Jewish? Or that most of us do not know that most people in Indonesia -- the world's largest mostly Muslim nation -- are Muslim? Or that Protestants (and not Catholics) are taught that salvation comes through "faith alone"? Academics call it the Religion Congruence Fallacy: In survey after survey, year after year, Americans who say they belong to a particular religious tradition tend not to act like it. To take an easy set of examples: Conservative Protestants are no less likely than other Protestants to have been ...
On Google's Birthday, Apple Takes the Cake
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Sept. 27) -- Happy 12th birthday, Google! Today you are No. 1 in our hearts but No. 2 in our newspapers. Birthday cake doodle aside, it's the more fruit-themed of the two tech companies that really has something to celebrate today. According to a 13-month study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, over the past year the always trendy Apple garnered 15.1 percent of all technology stories in the news, edging out the 11.4 percent of coverage generated by Google. The study, which surveyed selected news outlets from June 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010, focuses on ...
Obama's Religion Still at Issue for Many Americans: A Fifth Say He's Muslim
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyIt just won't go away. The Pew Research Center reports that a growing number of Americans -- nearly one in five -- think President Obama is a Muslim, despite evidence to the contrary. At 18 percent, the number is up from 11 percent in March 2009, soon after he took office. The nationwide telephone survey reached more than 3,000 on landlines and cell phones in late July and early August -- before the president's comments last weekend in support of the right of Muslims to build a mosque in Lower Manhattan near the site of the 9/11 attacks. "The view that Obama is a Muslim is more widespread ...
Report: More US Women in Their 40s Never Have Kids
By Michelle Ruiz - AOL News(June 25) -- Nearly one in five American women in her early 40s is childless, a dramatic rise over past decades, according to a report released today. A study by the Pew Research Center found that approximately 18 percent of American women in 2008 had not given birth by the end of their childbearing years, which is considered to occur between the ages of 40 and 44. In 1976 the proportion of women in the same age group who were childless was 10 percent. There were 1.9 million childless women ages 40 to 44 in 2008, compared with nearly 580,000 in 1976, the study reported. Getty Images A Pew ...
Stop the Car! More Adult Drivers Texting Than Teens
By Tamara Lytle - AOL News(June 24) -- Maybe it's the grown-ups who need to be grounded. A recent Pew Internet and American Life Project study shows that 47 percent of adults who use their cell phone to text had done it while driving, making them more likely offenders than teens. Only about a third of 16- and 17-year-old teens who text had done so behind the wheel, according to an earlier Pew survey. "Adults ... clearly should know better," Justin McNaull, director of state relations for AAA, told AOL News. "It's not youthful indiscretion." While 28 states have outlawed texting for all drivers, others have focused ...
Teens Love to Text, But Adults Do It Behind the Wheel
By Katie Drummond - Politics DailyEven though teens send more text messages, adults are more often guilty of typing out the cell phone notes while behind the wheel, according to a new survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The organization polled 2,252 American adults, of whom 82 percent owned a cell phone. Of those, 58 percent sent text messages. Pew's findings led to a new report, tellingly dubbed "Adults and Cell Phone Distractions." A few of the survey's key results: --47 percent of adults who text admit that they've done it while driving, compared with 34 percent of 16- and 17-year-olds polled by ...
A Global Feeling of Gloom
By Christine Riedel - AOL News(June 18) -- Does the economy have you feeling blue? You're not alone. When the Pew Research Center released a 22-nation poll on global issues earlier this week, most of the headlines focused on President Barack Obama's strong approval ratings around the world, despite domestic problems including the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and a shaky economy. The same survey found that most Americans are unhappy with the U.S. economy -- and that people in many other nations aren't feeling so great either. Just four countries -- China, India, Brazil and Poland -- had a majority of respondents saying their ...
Obama, Struggling on Homefront, Still a Global Pop Star, Poll Finds
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyAt home it's all about oil spill, a staggering deficit, high unemployment and the blood and treasure pouring into two wars. But in most parts of the world, American President Barack Obama remains highly popular, an international pop star leading a country that is more warmly received in most quarters than it was under his predecessor, George W. Bush. Yet the favorable findings in an extensive Pew Research Center survey do not extend to the Muslim world, and approval of Obama elsewhere does not necessarily equate to approval of his policies. In Egypt, America's favorability rating slipped from ...
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