The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC.

Richard Barrett is the United Nations Coordinator of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Implementation Monitoring Team, also known as the al-Qaeda and Taliban Monitoring Team. Barrett advises the Security Council on the threat posed by al-Qaeda.

U.S. Rep. Buck McKeon, a Republican, represents California’s 25th District and is an LDS church member.

U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador, a Republican, represents Idaho’s 1st District and is an LDS church member.

U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Republican, was elected in 2008 to represent Utah’s 3rd District in Congress. He is a member of the LDS church.

Bitterlemons is an online roundtable, a publication on the Middle East put out by Palestinian sociologist Ghassan Khatib and Yossi Alpher, a consultant on Israeli-related strategic issues.

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut is one of the world’s leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion.

American National Election Studies produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation.

The Quinnipiac University Polling Institute is operated out of Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., and regularly conducts surveys of residents of Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia as well as nationwide.