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Recent stats on helping the needy, the tsunami, and religious government officials.

Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 2/16/2005 12:00AM

50%	47%	79%
Americans who believe the government should help more needy people, even if it means more national debt.	Malaysians who believe the tsunami was "an act of God with religious significance."	Evangelicals in 2000 who agreed that "even elected officials who are deeply religious sometimes have to make compromises and set their convictions aside to get results while in government."
39%	26%	63%
"Committed" evangelicals (those who attend church at least weekly) who say this.	Americans who said this.	Evangelicals who agreed in 2004.

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, Global Market Insite, Public Agenda

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Sources: Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, Global Market Insite, Public Agenda.

March 2005, Vol. 49, No. 3

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