… According to a 2012 survey by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and Duke University, 20 percent of Americans “claimed they had no religious preference,” compared with an unaffiliated population of 8 percent in 1990. Roughly two out of three Americans, a 2012 Pew report noted, are […] Read more »
Redskins Paying Team Of Republican Advisers For Advice On Name Controversy
The Washington Redskins are paying a team of high-profile consultants with ties to the Republican Party to advise the team on issues around its controversial name, a spokesperson for the team said in a statement to ThinkProgress on Friday. … Emails obtained by ThinkProgress this week showed that the team […] Read more »
Forty percent would steer kids away from football
Forty percent of Americans say they would encourage their children to play a different sport than football due to concerns about concussions, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. … There is a striking split when it comes to how those at different income levels see the issue. […] Read more »
In New Year, Half Are Looking Forward to Midterm Elections
As 2014 begins and the midterm election campaigns heat up, about half of the public (51%) is especially looking forward to November’s congressional elections while 49% are not looking forward to them. The new national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Jan. 2-5 among 1,005 adults, finds that 58% […] Read more »
The Football Effect: Public Opinion & The NFL
Few things stir the passions of the American public like football. … Curious about just how deep those emotions can run, we asked Americans over two Sunday evenings to give their opinions on topics ranging from the NFL to national politics and their personal financial situations. Afterward, we compared responses between […] Read more »
For Sports Fans, Before the Internet, There Were the Complete Handbooks
… From 1971 to 1997, [Zander] Hollander edited sports yearbooks, brick-like tomes known as Complete Handbooks, which in the pre-Internet era were almost holy objects to a certain type of sports-crazed youngster. Here, in one glorious place, was information — statistics, team rosters, records, schedules, predictions for the coming season and […] Read more »