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Originally Posted by Adder
That's probably right, but fits with what I would predict for the general pattern: people in general have no clue what is going on.
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As TM says often, most people are idiots.
I think that a larger majority of people who respond to polls are idiots. I think an even larger majority of people who respond to polls with the methodology of this one* are idiots.
And, on top of that, 37% of the poll respondents were from the "South". And 16% of them expressed no preference among Dem/Repub/Independent.
Also, if the poll had included a quiz to see if the people understood either (a) what the "federal budget" includes or the total size of the budget or (b) what 25% or 10% of that means, I suspect that you'd have 90% failure--that they wouldn't understand either what the question actually was or what their answer actually meant. This isn't "is Obama the antichrist", it relies on a reasonable understanding of math in a nation that is majority functionally-innumerate.
*"The poll of 848 Americans was fielded from November 6 to15, 2010. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.4 percent. It was conducted using the web-enabled KnowledgePanel®, a probability-based panel designed to be representative of the U.S. population. Initially, participants are chosen scientifically by a random selection of telephone numbers and residential addresses. Persons in selected households are then invited by telephone or by mail to participate in the web-enabled KnowledgePanel®. For those who agree to participate, but do not already have Internet access, Knowledge Networks provides at no cost a laptop and ISP connection. Panelists receive unique log-in information for accessing surveys online and are contacted by an email inviting them to participate in a study."
