More than 270,000 Oregonians have already cast their ballots via mail for today’s primary.

At the start of this year’s election season, only 22% of U.S. adults said that gay marriage will be important to their vote in the coming elections.

By a margin of more than six-to-one (61% to 9%), the U.S. public now says free trade agreements result in job losses rather than in the creation of new jobs.

Two of every three women ages 50-64 say today’s mothers are doing a worse job as parents than mothers did 20 or 30 years ago — the highest level of criticism among any age-sex group in the US population.

Nearly half of all American Catholics under age 30 are Hispanic (45%).

A majority (51%) of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters now says the undecided nomination contest is bad for the party, up from 27% in late February.

Fewer than one-in-four Republicans (23%) now rate economic conditions as excellent or good, substantially fewer than did so a few months ago.