Cuckoo Catchoo! Hilarious Conspiracy Theory Polling from PPP

While we are admitted Nate Silver fan-boys here at The Recovering Politician, our favorite pollsters have to be Public Policy Polling’s Tom Jensen and Jim Williams.  First came their poll that showed Congressional approval below that of Brussles sprouts and barely above root canals.  Now comes their national survey about popular conspiracy theories (h/t Jim Higdon):

– 37% of voters believe global warming is a hoax, 51% do not. Republicans say global warming is a hoax by a 58-25 margin, Democrats disagree 11-77, and Independents are more split at 41-51. 61% of Romney voters believe global warming is a hoax

– 6% of voters believe Osama bin Laden is still alive

– 21% of voters say a UFO crashed in Roswell, NM in 1947 and the US government covered it up. More Romney voters (27%) than Obama voters (16%) believe in a UFO coverup

– 28% of voters believe secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government, or New World Order. A plurality of Romney voters (38%) believe in the New World Order compared to 35% who don’t

– 28% of voters believe Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks. 36% of Romney voters believe Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11, 41% do not

– 20% of voters believe there is a link between childhood vaccines and autism, 51% do not

– 7% of voters think the moon landing was faked

– 13% of voters think Barack Obama is the anti-Christ, including 22% of Romney voters

– Voters are split 44%-45% on whether Bush intentionally misled about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. 72% of Democrats think Bush lied about WMDs, Independents agree 48-45, just 13% of Republicans think so

– 29% of voters believe aliens exist

– 14% of voters say the CIA was instrumental in creating the crack cocaine epidemic in America’s inner cities in the 1980’s

– 9% of voters think the government adds fluoride to our water supply for sinister reasons (not just dental health)

– 4% of voters say they believe “lizard people” control our societies by gaining political power

– 51% of voters say a larger conspiracy was at work in the JFK assassination, just 25% say Oswald acted alone

– 14% of voters believe in Bigfoot

– 15% of voters say the government or the media adds mind-controlling technology to TV broadcast signals (the so-called Tinfoil Hat crowd)

– 5% believe exhaust seen in the sky behind airplanes is actually chemicals sprayed by the government for sinister reasons

– 15% of voters think the medical industry and the pharmaceutical industry “invent” new diseases to make money

– Just 5% of voters believe that Paul McCartney actually died in 1966

– 11% of voters believe the US government allowed 9/11 to happen, 78% do not agree

Frankly, I do believe that Oswald did not act alone, although I find Oliver Ston-ian “the government did it” theorists to be way off. 

And of course, I know that Paul is dead.  Cuckoo-catchoo!

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