Supremes — A Pew Research Center survey “finds the Supreme Court’s popularity is at a 25-year low, though still much higher than that of Congress. The Pew Research Center says 52 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the court, the lowest rating since the group started asking Americans their view of the high court in 1987.”
Apocalypse — Maybe the Mayans were right! According to an Ipsos poll, one in seven people worldwide believe the world will end during their lifetime, and 10 percent think it will happen this year. Worse than that, the highest percentage who believe in the end of the world? America and Turkey, at 22%. (They must not go to the movies because from “Armageddon” to “2012,” the Earth is always saved.)
OK, not everything is serious.
Sports — Republicans and Democrats can pretty much disagree about anything. Take sports, for example. A Washington Post-ABC News poll reports that two-thirds of Americans like baseball, followed by basketball at 58%, hockey, 49%, and NASCAR, 48%.
But then, maybe because it’s the Washington Post, you get down to politics. Democrats like the NBA much more than Republicans. Republicans are more inclined toward NASCAR. Independents split the difference on each sport.
What? They didn’t ask about fishing or bowling? More here.
– John Robinson
