BREAKING: Poll - 7% think PBS spending makes up HALF of all Federal Spending.

Polling data says 7% of the American public actually believes that
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting makes up OVER 50% of all
federal government spending.

An amazing 22% believe that
Public Broadcasting accounts for ten percent or more of all
federal government spending.

See question number 39.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/03/31/rel4m.pdf

(The actual number is 0.012% of 2011's federal spending, by the way)

(What a sad commentary of the state of our Union).

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BREAKING: Poll - 7% think PBS spending makes up HALF of all Federal Spending. (Original post)	James48	Oct 2012	OP
You can't fix stupid--I'll bet they're all Republicans, too... nt	MADem	Oct 2012	#1
It's a five point Likert scale,	OnyxCollie	Oct 2012	#2
Sometimes I wonder if a country like ours really deserves	UrbScotty	Oct 2012	#3
These are the morons Mitt was sending dog whistles to by threatening Big Bird	diane in sf	Oct 2012	#4
I wouldn't be surprised if 7% of people polled	Curmudgeoness	Oct 2012	#5
facepalm	Tien1985	Oct 2012	#6

Response to James48 (Original post)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 10:09 PM

MADem (85,919 posts)

1. You can't fix stupid--I'll bet they're all Republicans, too... nt

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Mon Oct 8, 2012, 11:57 PM

OnyxCollie (6,553 posts)

2. It's a five point Likert scale,

but it goes from "increased a little" to "stay the same" to "decreased a little" to "decreased a lot" to "eliminated completely."

It's skewed toward a decrease.

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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:45 AM

UrbScotty (22,197 posts)