The statistics whizzes at Public Policy Polling called up almost 600 Ameritards to ask them who was the coolest among these five individuals — Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, or Joe Biden. Everyone said, “Joe Biden, cuz he’s rad.” OK, OK, no they didn’t, because Biden is never allowed to win anything.
Remember when Andy Griffith made that Medicare ad? It turns out people DO NOT like that Matlock or his support of their health. You know how bad things are for Democratic political figures these days? Even Andy Griffith’s poll numbers have seen a significant decline in the last 2 years. Our latest North Carolina poll [...]
This is special: Asked to name the current chief justice of the Supreme Court, and given four possible names, nearly one-in-ten Americans (8%) choose Thurgood Marshall, despite the fact that Justice Marshall left the Supreme Court roughly 20 years ago, and passed away in 1993. In fact, very few Americans can name the current chief [...]
A 60 Minutes / Vanity Fair media odd-couple (seriously, that is like used condom full of oatmeal) poll conducted earlier this month asked people what they think about freelance talker Sarah Palin, and it turns out most people don’t see her being an “effective” president. WHAT? What part of her half-term governorship of a barren [...]
Public Policy Polling has released some important figures: polling on all major potential 2012 patriot presidential candidates and how they all stack up against MaoBama. Let’s see, we’ve got Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, and Chris Christie. Oh, and Basil Marceaux. Yep, that’s probably what the field will look like. [...]
CNN doesn’t really know how to come up with an original perspective on an issue, so they like to poll the general public about things in which they have no expertise. And now it turns out that Americans are nearly evenly split on whether the Constitution protects gay marriage and whether the U.S. should pass [...]
Matt Yglesias illustrates the ironic nature of our permanent occupation of Iraq with a special Alanis Morissette song! [Matt Yglesias] Remember Dan Maes, the Colorado Tea Party man who exposed the U.N. conspiracy that would have forced the entire city of Denver to ride around on an enormous Tandem bicycle? Dan Maes’ comments were taken [...]
There has long been a lot of pessimism over Social Security. Those good-for-nothing Baby Boomers are going to bankrupt the system, just like they did to Lehman Brothers and Groovy Acid-Tripping, Inc. back in the day. But something came out today: Gallup took a poll and quantified that pessimism. It turns out 6 out of [...]
Free Washington Metro Station paper The Politico exists for one reason: To sell advertising to D.C. lobbying firms and interest groups so that D.C. government professionals will see the ads while flipping through the tabloid on the way to work. “Oh,” the cubicle-bound factotum with the graduate degree in public policy will mumble to him/herself [...]
Sen. Harry Reid has finished ahead of his Teabagger/Republican opponent Sharron Angle for the first time in his re-election campaign, so if Republicans are not already kicking themselves for nominating a crazy instead of a bland, they are now. Harry Reid was once written off, but Angle has allowed him to catch up by admitting [...]
Democrats own black people, like slaves, did you know? Except instead of just ordinary slave owners, all black people belong to Tim Kaine’s DNC Plantation. [RedState] Al Gore’s poll numbers, like the glacial ice caps that so concern him, are melting away like a refused erection, stranding his career on a drifting piece of sea-ice [...]
55% OF AMERICA KNOWS BARACK OBAMA IS AS RED AS JOE STALIN: “One thing about that socialism number, even though Obama is not a socialist: 29% of people think of socialism positively, and only 52% of people think of ‘capitalism’ positively. It is not 0% versus 100%. We are a nation of many views!” Nation [...]
Marist University saw that the Fourth of July was coming up and decided to commission a poll to show how stupid we all are. The question: “From which country did the United States win its independence?” Marist was surely expecting only 2% of Americans to know the answer. CNN.com was also prepared for the results [...]
It was bad enough losing the pundits, but it appears President Obama is losing footing among his own people, the Muslims. While Obama continues to be loved by gay godless Europeans, polls show a majority of people in Muslim countries have a negative opinion of our keffiyehed leader. These Mohammedans believe the U.S. “could pose [...]
Gallup wanted to find out how the Gulf’s ecosystem will react to the oil spill, so they decided to ask the experts, the American public. And according to poll results released today, American women think beaches and animals in the region will be profoundly affected by the oil spill, whereas American men know that stuff [...]
