Ahead of the 2008 election, a lot of political organizing happened in traditional African-American churches. And 95% of Black voters pulled the lever for Obama. What impact has the president’s [...]
The 2012 general election is just getting started, and already the questions have begun: will the youth vote turn out in 2012? Who is the 2012 youth vote? What do they believe? This week we’re joined [...]
Last weekend, Dr. Robert P. Jones, CEO and founder of Public Religion Research Institute, joined us to discuss the findings of two new national surveys. How is a new generation of voters likely to [...]
We found that with each successively younger generation, the appeal of religious conservatism goes down. There’s a straight, linear correlation between age and religious conservatism. – [...]
This week, comments made by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at a fundraiser have received lots of attention. Some commentators pounced, accusing Romney of dismissing nearly half the [...]
A “Fortnight of Facts” There’s been a lot of attention paid to the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops’ “Fortnight for Freedom” – the bishops’ two-week campaign culminating on July 4th to raise the issue [...]
Dr. Robert P. Jones, founder and CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, on two recent surveys, one on generational viewpoints on LGBT issues revealing how things are changing as well as how [...]
