Poll Watch

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Amid talk of a crackdown on illegal immigrants. 53% of all Hispanic adults in the U.S. worry that a family member or a close friend could be deported.

Pew Hispanic Center

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40% of American female voters say Judith Giuliani's affair with Rudy while he was married to another woman makes her less suitable to be first lady. 34% say Bill Clinton's adultery makes him less suitable to be first gentleman.

New York Daily News/Blue & Weprin Associates

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Just 19.6% of Americans say they believe "all or most of what they see and read in the national news media,down from 27.4% in 2003. By a 3-to-1 margin, Americans see journalist and broadcasters as "mostly" or "somewhat" liberal, as opposed to mostly or somewhat conservative.

Sacred Heart University Poll

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20% of Americans now cite the economy as the foremost problem facing the nation, virtually tying the 21% who cite the war in Irag. In October, the war beat out the economy as the top issue by a 2-to1 margin.

Associated Press-Ipsos

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23% of Pakistanis believe that Pakistani government agencies were directly responsible for the Benazir Bhutto assassination, while another 25% blame "government-allied" politcians. Only 17% blame al Qaida or the Taliban.

Gallup Pakistan

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Judging their generally positive views of the current crop of Republican and Democratic candidates, it would appear that American voters are not clamoring for a third party canidate. 84% say one of the current canidates would make a good president. 72% say the candidates are talking about issues that they really care about.

Gallup Poll

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28% of Americans go to a library at least once a month; 27% never go at all.

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Comparing President Bush with the past several presidents,28% of Americans rate him as "one of the very best" or "better than most. 29% consider Bush "not as good as most." while 41% rate him "definitely worse than most." Asked to rate former President Bill Clinton as either a good or bad president, 71% said good and 24% said bad.

USA Today/Gallup Poll

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55% of Americans believe there's intellibent life in outer space. 37% think there isn't.

ABC News

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Just 68% of people raised Catholic still identify with their childhood religion, compared with 80% of Protestants and 76% Jews.

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16% of Americans describe themselves as "unaffiliated," a group that includes both atheists and believes without a denomination.

Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

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67% of Americans say "traditional journalism, "including newspapers and TV, is "out of touch" with what they want from the news.

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48% of Americans say the internet is now their primary source of news and information, up from 40% a year ago.

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29% of Americans say they get most of their information from TV,11% from radio, and 10% list newspapers as their main information source.

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Four in 10 Americans say they are having trouble paying for prescription drugs.

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16% of Americans say paying for drugs is a "serious" problem

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29% of Americans haven't filled a prescription in the past two years due to the cost.

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23% of Americans have skipped doses or cut pills in half to make their medication last longer.

USA Today/Kaiser/Harvard Poll

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Americans are growing less aware of the number of U.S. fatalities in Iraq. Only 28% know that 4,000 American soldiers have died in the war; in a similar poll last August, 54% knew that the fatality level at that time was nearly 3,500. In the new poll,46% underestimated the number of war deaths, while 23% overestimated it.

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74% Of Americans say the economy has entered a recession, up from 66% who held that view last month. 42% say the economy is the biggest issue on their minds, double the number who list the war in Iraq as the top issue.

Cnn/Opinion Research Corp.