Yet a survey by the Pew Research Centre, released on May 21st, shows that Americans still like business.
Only 27% of Democrats support keeping troops in Iraq, according to a recent poll by the Pew Research Centre, compared with 81% of Republicans.
In 2007 only 11% of US-born black women aged 30-44 without a high school diploma had a working spouse, according to the Pew Research Centre.
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As Andy Kohut of the Pew Research Centre says, Mr Bush showed at his convention that he could move the needle, while Mr Kerry could not.
According to a poll by the Pew Research Centre, confidence in Mr bin Laden in the Palestinian territories has fallen from 72% in 2003 to 34% now.
Republicans have criticised the pullout citing concerns over Iraq's stability, but a recent poll by the Pew Research Centre found that 75% of Americans backed the troop withdrawal.
It is heartening that in a recent poll by the Pew Research Centre, the top three reasons cited for America's success are the constitution, free elections and free enterprise.
The Pew Research Centre's survey of global attitudes last year discovered that most French and Dutch, as well as pluralities of Britons and Germans, think America is too religious.
Moreover, a little-noticed poll, issued just before the convention by the Pew Research Centre, showed that voters do not yet seem to believe that Mr Bush is a different kind of Republican.
Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Centre, sees a parallel with 1981, when polls showed high approval for Reagan coupled with anxiety about his policies, such as cuts to Social Security (government-funded pensions) and welfare.
And food companies don't meet the disapproval in China that they do in the West: according to the Pew Research Centre, while 72% of Chinese think that fast food has made the world a better place, only 23% of Americans do.
This week the Pew Hispanic Centre, a research institute, released a report arguing that Mexicans, who once accounted for most of the illegal influx, are now leaving the country in greater numbers than they are entering it.
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