Public Trust in Media Approaches Media's Trust in Public
A new Gallup poll finds that only 40% of Americans have even a “fair amount” of trust in the media—an all-time low since polling began in the 1990s. Well, guess what?
America's Imaginary Great Past
According to a new poll, 72%(!) of Americans “think their country isn’t as great as it once was.” Really? When was America greater?
Poll: North Carolina Voters Largely Unsure About Deez Nuts
According to a newly released survey by Public Policy Polling, the vast majority of North Carolinians say they are “not sure” how they feel about Deez Nuts, and those that do have an impression of the presidential candidate overwhelming say they do not care for Deez Nuts.http://jezebel.com/breaking-deez-…
Staying abreast of Boston’s rousing Olympic spirit: only 39% of people in Massachusetts now support the idea of holding the 2024 Olympics in Boston. Fortunately, support among the Olympic Committee itself is no doubt even lower.
Bobby Jindal Is Less Popular Than Even Barack Obama in Louisiana
Bobby Jindal launched a presidential exploratory committee today, because hey, that’s what you do. Presumably he’ll be exploring outside the state he governs, because as much as Louisianans hate Democrats and Obummer, they hate Bobby more, a new poll shows.
A new poll indicates that support among Bostonians for the idea of hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics has risen—all the way up to 40%! You can almost see the Olympic spirit dripping from the orifices of two in five Bostonians! With this level of passion, the games are a lock.
The American Suckers Still Believe in The American Dream
Despite the fact that the richest one-one-thousandth of Americans has now accumulated almost as much wealth as the entire bottom 90% of Americans, almost two thirds of the people in this country still believe in some version of the American Dream. Optimism lives!
Black Americans Distrust the Police For Some Reason
Public polling offers us evidence-based insight into the beliefs of the American people. But it cannot offer us explanations. For example, a shocking number of black people seem to have little faith in the police. But why?
A new Pew poll suggests that 14 percent of Americans—mainly male non-black college grads who make $75,000 or more—identify as "libertarian." Nearly a quarter of those self-identified libertarians failed to correctly identify what libertarians believe.
BREAKING: If you conduct a poll made up of 73 percent whites, 61 percent Midwesterners and Southerners, 66 percent non-college grads, 69 percent non-Democrats and 56 percent land-line users, you can get a Politico headline proclaiming Obama the worst president since World War II.
These Proudly Racist States Would Hate a Redskins Name Change
Even an unscientific ESPN poll tells an enduring truth sometimes. Apparently the only places where a majority of hypothetical Washington NFL fans really couldn't brook a hypothetical name change for the team are the deep South and Utah. Maybe that changes if we leave a link to the poll here.
Eric Cantor's Pollster Got Paid $75,000 To Be Wrong By 44 Points
Here is one solution to America's student-debt problem: Hire more recent college graduates as campaign pollsters. They can't do any worse than longtime Republican poll-whiz John McLaughlin.
Americans Are Big Believers In Science, If You Ignore the Tea Partiers
You know all that fuss about how liberals love science and conservatives hate it? Well, it turns out that a sizable majority of all Americans have faith in the quantifiable, reproducible conclusions of empirical observation. As long as you leave self-identified Tea Partiers out of the equation.
According to a new poll, here are a list of qualities that would convince Americans not to vote for a candidate, from least to most offensive: used marijuana; is gay or lesbian; in their 70s; had an extramarital affair; has never held office; is an atheist.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans polled by NBC News said they'd favor a return to death by gas, electric chair, firing squad or hanging if lethal injection was found impractical. What's your preference? Personally, I'd like to have seen polling numbers for garroting and breaking on the wheel.
An estimated 55 percent of Americans believe they're smarter than the average American. No word on how many can define irony.
Would You Fuck a Robot? You Would Probably Fuck a Robot
About one in five Britons recently said they would consider having sex with a specific genus of robot. This seems low. I think a lot of people are lying.
Either 192% of Americans Weighed in on Obamacare or WaPo's Chart Sucks
Maybe both. On the plus side, America hates everything and everybody, according to the Washington Post-ABC News poll tabs.
The New York Times' new data-driven explainery site, The Upshot, currently estimates that Democrats have a 51 percent chance of retaining control of the Senate. Bold projection, or not-too-subtle "FU" to Nate Silver? Or both? It's definitely not neither.
Though 55% of Americans say they favor legalized weed, a new poll finds that 75% of Americans believe it's "inevitable" that weed will be legalized. Just legalize it already. They'll save so much money on polling.
