third of Americans don't know the Pope (Pew Research)
A Pew Research Center national survey, conducted March 24-29 among 1,001 Americans (3.5% +/- error rate), found that three in ten Americans do not know enough about the Pope to offer their opinions about him. Majority of those surveyed (52%) favor Pope Benedict XVI, and unsurprisingly three-quarters (74%) of the American surveyed that are Catholics (215 out of the 1,001) favor him.
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Moreover, the study shows that Pope John Paul II was more known and viewed more favorably in the 80s and 90s than Pope Benedict. Additional observations include:
* 45% of those surveyed say that Pope Benedict is conservative, down from 56% last August. 31% of the Catholics surveyed see him more liberal, compared to 22% last August; while 37% of Protestants see him moderate or conservative, compared to 47% last August.
* More Republicans (62%) favor Pope Benedict when compared to Democrats (47% in favor) and Independents (50% in favor).
An interesting observation regarding partisan views of the Pope includes and I'll quote:
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Moreover, the study shows that Pope John Paul II was more known and viewed more favorably in the 80s and 90s than Pope Benedict. Additional observations include:
* 45% of those surveyed say that Pope Benedict is conservative, down from 56% last August. 31% of the Catholics surveyed see him more liberal, compared to 22% last August; while 37% of Protestants see him moderate or conservative, compared to 47% last August.
* More Republicans (62%) favor Pope Benedict when compared to Democrats (47% in favor) and Independents (50% in favor).
An interesting observation regarding partisan views of the Pope includes and I'll quote:
Republicans also have more positive evaluations of Pope Benedict's promotion of good relations with other religions. A plurality (46%) of Republicans evaluates him positively on this question. By contrast, Democrats are more evenly divided; 39% say he is doing an excellent or good job, compared with 38% who say he is only doing a fair or poor job. Independents are the most critical of the pope's efforts to foster relations with other religions. Only about third independents (32%) rate his interfaith efforts as excellent or good, while about half (51%) rate them as fair or poor.
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