{"id":9824,"date":"2007-02-03T11:05:38","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T16:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9824.html"},"modified":"2007-02-03T11:05:38","modified_gmt":"2007-02-03T16:05:38","slug":"dumbest-poll-questions-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/dumbest-poll-questions-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumbest &#8230; poll questions &#8230; ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/projects\/pdf\/020107_2008_Super_Bowl_web2.pdf\">a poll<\/a> (.pdf) this week with many of the usual political questions one would expect to see right now &#8212; the 2008 presidential race, the war, etc. But, with the Super Bowl in mind, the network also asked respondents two of the strangest questions I&#8217;ve ever seen in a national poll.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>35. Do you believe God plays a role in determining which team wins a sporting event?<\/p>\n<p>Yes: 27%<br \/>\nNo: 66%<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t know: 7%<\/p>\n<p>36. Which team do you think God wants to win the Super Bowl this year?<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Bears: 14%<br \/>\nIndianapolis Colts: 11%<br \/>\nSame\/No difference: 16%<br \/>\nGod&#8217;s too busy\/doesn&#8217;t play favorites: 33%<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t believe in God: 1%<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t know: 25%<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why on earth would any news outlet in the country pay money to put these questions in the field?<\/p>\n<p>And one-in-four people actually believe that divine intervention helps dictate the results of sporting events?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News released a poll (.pdf) this week with many of the usual political questions one would expect to see right now &#8212; the 2008 presidential race, the war, etc. But, with the Super Bowl in mind, the network also asked respondents two of the strangest questions I&#8217;ve ever seen in a national poll. 35. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}