Charlestown isn’t the only crazy place
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| "I want to believe!" - 29% |
By Will Collette
A new survey report by Public Policy
Polling, the
much-lauded pollsters who were the most dead-on accurate on the 2012
Presidential and Congressional races, shows that there are lots of Americans
who believe incredibly stupid things.
I’d love to see a poll like this conducted just for
Charlestown to see how we stack up.
PPP surveyed registered voters only. Since
140,000,000 people voted in 2012, when PPP says that 21% of registered voters
believe a UFO really did crash at Roswell, NM in 1947, and that the US
government covered it up, that converts into 29.4 million people.
In another, brand-new poll just released by Fairleigh-Dickinson University, 29% of registered voters (40.6 million people) believe an armed rebellion might be needed in the United States in the next few years. That number jumps to 44% among Republicans. By huge margins, the people who think there's going to be an armed revolt soon also oppose gun control and think the massacre of children at Newtown Elementary was a hoax or government plot.
In another, brand-new poll just released by Fairleigh-Dickinson University, 29% of registered voters (40.6 million people) believe an armed rebellion might be needed in the United States in the next few years. That number jumps to 44% among Republicans. By huge margins, the people who think there's going to be an armed revolt soon also oppose gun control and think the massacre of children at Newtown Elementary was a hoax or government plot.
Here are some of the other things a large number of
people say they believe.
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| 18.2 million people believe the President is the Anti-Christ |
29% or 40.6 million people believe space aliens
exist.
28% (39.2 million) still believe Saddam Hussein and
Iraq were involved in the 9/11 attacks.
28% also believe there is a global conspiracy to
bring the entire planet under an authoritarian world government, the New World
Order.
NOTE: PPP does not indicate how much overlap there is in their results. I.e. do the same 28% of voters believe the Saddam Hussein myth and the New World Order myth?
NOTE: PPP does not indicate how much overlap there is in their results. I.e. do the same 28% of voters believe the Saddam Hussein myth and the New World Order myth?
15% (21 million people) think the government has
added secret mind-control technology to TV signals.
15% also think the medical and pharmaceutical
industries simply make up new diseases to make money.
14% (19.6 million) believe in Big Foot.
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If you subtract those 13.4 million Romney voters from the 18.2 million Presidential vote total, that gives you 4.8 million voters who believe Obama is the anti-Christ, but still voted for him.
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| 5.6 million people think the Gorn have taken over |
7% (9.8 million) think the moon landings were faked.
6%, or 8.4 million people, think Osama bin Laden is
still alive.
5% (7 million) think that the contrails left by
high-flying jets are actually chemicals being sprayed by the government for
sinister reasons.
4% of voters – 5.6 million people – say they believe
“lizard people” (I’m not making this up) control our societies by gaining
political power.
Several of the “issues” polled by PPP were listed by
Wired magazine in 2007 as the Top
Ten Conspiracy Theories. That list included the lizard people.
