YES. Americans are that stupid. We have a lot of work to do to change it.

I think they're really that stupid and shallow, both in education and ability to measure worth. And I don't think this current state can be reversed in 5 more generations.

Hope I'm wrong, but the pollsters have Clinton and Christie as the front runners right now for 2016. Does that sound like anyone's learned anything in the last several years? Maybe they'll prove me wrong and put Waxman up.

I wish I had been bred so my beast were so big I would just fall over.
Lol.

Happy New Year, Bambi

It was an open-ended question. Respondents could identify anyone; and they gave the names they knew from the news.

Off the top of your head, name a living American Nobel laureate whom you personally admire.

Read the entire poll at its source here:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/166646/obama-...

No tallies were large. Counts below 1% did not appear. Look, also, at the historical rankings 1946-2013. Billy Graham is at the top. However, in that same period, the number of Americans who claim NO RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION grew to 20%.

Among the topmost women since 1946 are Margaret Chase Smith and Clare Luce Booth, household names from my childhood, but likely forgotten today.

It is also important to note that as America continues to polarize around deep issues, the "majority" of even 60% hides a very different and significant minority.

If they are not lying, then it is all over except for the funeral.

I'm afraid it is.