The Ipsos Care-o-Meter asks Americans what they know about vs. what they care about, twice every month. From sports to political fights, the answers say as much about Americans as they do about the world at large. Here's the latest.
Below are five charts on the stories Americans are paying the most attention to and the stories Americans care most about
The number of workers who commute five days a week or more has risen to half (49%), according to the Ipsos Consumer Tracker
Obama's approval rating (65%) slips only slightly from one month ago (69%); approval breaks strongly along party lines.
Updated for 2009!
While leading companies in popular industries are only marginally better rated than their sector in general, the gap in favorability can be extremely wide between individual companies in difficult industries and their sector
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