That’s how much support for same-sex marriage has advanced in 10 years. With the Supreme Court ready to hear oral arguments this week in two cases involving gay marriage and the legal rights of those in civil unions, the Pew...
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Rachel Baker, left, and Christine Tully wait in line to get their marriage license at the Manhattan City Clerk's office in New York.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 16%
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Revelers celebrate during the Gay Pride parade in New York City.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 70
That’s the percentage of people of the so-called millennial generation who back same-sex marriage, according to the Pew Research Center. The millennial generation — those born since 1980 and between the ages of 18 and 32 — is more supportive...
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Mariachi musicians sing and play as they go from house to house to encourage people to come to vote on election day at the Sun Valley's Latino district, Los Angeles County, on November 6, 2012 in California.
Hispanic Electorate Doubles Republican Party’s Troubles
The sudden openness of Republican leaders to an overhaul of immigration laws — including a path to either legal residency or citizenship for many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the U.S. — stems from another “drubbing” at...
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Members of a U.S. Army carry team carry a flag-draped transfer case containing the remains of U.S. Army Specialist Omar M. Albrak of Chicago during a dignified transfer on the tarmac at Dover Air Force Base on May 12, 2009 in Dover, Delaware. Albrak was killed while serving in Iraq. Today was his 21st birthday.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 4,486
4,486. That’s the number of U.S. military deaths in the war in Iraq that began 10 years ago. An additional 318 non-U.S. troops have been killed, according to figures compiled by icasualties.org, a Web-site that tracks figures from official sources and news reports....
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Speaker of the House John Boehner speaks during a press briefing March 14, 2013 at the Capitol in Washington, DC.
Boehner: Tax Talk ‘Over’
Updated at 11:30 am EDT House Speaker John Boehner has given at the office. And he’s not giving any more on taxes, he reasserted today. The Ohio Republican, in an interview with ABC News’ Martha Raddatz airing on “This Week”...
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Representative Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin, speaks during a news conference following a vote at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 23, 2013.
Paul Ryan’s 34% Medicare Plan
Paul Ryan is getting ready to release another budget. Like the first one the House Budget chairman introduced two years ago, it will contain a provision to move people from Medicare to a voucher for private health care, starting with...
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Civilian employees of contractor Magic City Enterprises stock the commissary shelves, after hours at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyo, in this file photo. A base spokesperson said each the 1,100 civilians employed on the base could face forced furlough days amounting to about $8,000 in lost annual income if federal sequestration measures are enacted.
Republicans Lack Support as Sequestration Nears: Pew Poll
More than six in 10 Americans see the Republican Party as out of touch with them and half don’t believe the party looks out for the country’s future, according to a Pew Research Center poll released today. The survey also gives...
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A man talks on a cell phone while carrying a semi-automatic assault rifle he is trying to sell at the Rocky Mountain Gun Show in Sandy, Utah, on Jan. 5, 2013.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 39
That’s the percentage of Americans who say that President Barack Obama’s proposals to curb gun violence are “about right,” according to the Pew Research Center. That’s a plurality position in the survey taken Jan. 17-20. Thirty-one percent of respondents, including...
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Republican merchandise is set up for sale at the Tampa Bay Times Forum prior to the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Florida on Aug. 25, 2012.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 33
That’s the percentage of Americans who have a favorable view of the Republican Party, according to the Pew Research Center. The party’s favorable rating fell from 36 percent last month and from 42 percent in mid-September, after the Republican National...
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Semi-automatic assault rifles are displayed for sale at the Rocky Mountain Gun Show in Sandy, Utah.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 51
That’s the percentage of Americans who say it’s more important to control gun ownership, compared with 45 percent who say it’s more important to protect gun rights, according to the Pew Research Center. The share of people who said it’s...
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