You'll never guess who the GOP wants to bomb now!

[Bacon King]

@ppppolls 30% of Republican primary voters nationally say they support bombing Agrabah. Agrabah is the country from Aladdin.


Would you support or oppose bombing Agrahbah?

Supporting bombing Agrahbah: 30%
Oppose bombing Agrahbah: 13%
Not sure: 57%


link to poll pdf: www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/GOPResults.pdf

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Gotta love the GOP.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Fair enough. They cut off your ear if they don't like your face.

[Bacon King]

While this is hilarious - I love PPP's troll questions - it's honestly frightening that so many people have a kneejerk reaction to support bombing another country even when they have no knowledge or context of the situation

[Goldwater]

I mean, just look at their ruling, why obviously have it coming.

[DINGO Joe]

Now to be fair, with a name like that its got to be filled with Muslims, or Sikhs, whatever they are, so bombs away.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

I mean, just look at their ruling, why obviously have it coming.

Do you think the Sultan is funding moderate rebels in Syria?

[Torie]

Folks have a reluctance to admit their ignorance. And unlike folks on this forum, most folks are shockingly clueless when it comes to geography. Heck, I saw some poll, that 60% or something of high school students in Dallas, did not know in which direction Mexico was.

The name in play here, sounds more like a terrorist group anyway, as opposed to a fictional place.

[Zioneer]

Folks have a reluctance to admit their ignorance. And unlike folks on this forum, most folks are shockingly clueless when it comes to geography. Heck, I saw some poll, that 60% or something of high school students in Dallas, did not know in which direction Mexico was.

The name in play here, sounds more like a terrorist group anyway, as opposed to a fictional place.

You'd think people would have watched Aladdin, though.

[ingemann]

Folks have a reluctance to admit their ignorance. And unlike folks on this forum, most folks are shockingly clueless when it comes to geography. Heck, I saw some poll, that 60% or something of high school students in Dallas, did not know in which direction Mexico was.

The name in play here, sounds more like a terrorist group anyway, as opposed to a fictional place.

You'd think people would have watched Aladdin, though.

Wacthing Aladdin make people more likely to want to bomb, simply because it make the name sightly recognisable. I saw it as a child, but I couldn't remember that Agrabah was from Aladdin (I remembered it as Baghdad).

As for the poll, I'm not surprised, do anybody think the poll had been much different if the question had been "Should USA condemn the Agrabah occupation of Frigyzstan" and the people asked Democratic primary voters?

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Or how about polling both Democrats and Republicans on their opinion of Barack Obama's foreign policy in regards to the Sultanate of Agrabah...

[TDAS04]

Both very funny and very disturbing.  

[rob in cal]

    Don't forget about the huge amount of people who thought we fought against both the Soviets and the Germans in World War Two.

[Mr. Morden]

While this is hilarious - I love PPP's troll questions - it's honestly frightening that so many people have a kneejerk reaction to support bombing another country even when they have no knowledge or context of the situation

Why do you assume that they have no knowledge of context of the situation?  Maybe they watched Aladdin, and came to the conclusion that Jafar could only be stopped via a targeted bombing campaign?

[Miles]

[Kingpoleon]

Or how about polling both Democrats and Republicans on their opinion of Barack Obama's foreign policy in regards to the Sultanate of Agrabah...

Freedom Idea.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Not surprised. I mean, the Affordable Care Act is considerably more popular with the public than Obamacare.

[Mr. Morden]

19% of Dems support bombing it too:

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/677886855749177345

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[Badger]

19% of Dems support bombing it too:

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/677886855749177345

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A few things could be said for Democratic "opposition " and "support" to bombing.

1st: how many of those 19% are Bushie Oklahoma style types who'll not vote for Hillary in November ? Probably most. How many of the 30% pro-bombing Republicans are likely to back Hillary ? essentially none.

Second, if i recognized Agrabah as the mythical Disney kingdom, saying "uh, no, i see no reason to bomb Aladdin , Jasmine, and Abu" as opposed to "not sure" is reasonable, not ignorant. Minus perhaps 1 or 2 joke respondants (and probably none) thinking "yeah! Napalm Jafar's ass", the yes respondants have no such defense.

Third and most damning, while there is an argument that if one is ignorant of the situation that "not sure" is the best respons--particularly given the genuine threats of ISIL, the Taliban , etc. which arguably warrant some form of non-pacifistic response--thinking "i don't know much about the situation with Agrabah, so no, i don't support the use of bombing until i learn more" is also reasonable indeed. Choosing no vs. Not sure due to ignorance about Agrabah is far FAR more reasonable than any yes respondant, who shamefully just heard a muslim/arabic sounding name and essentially knee-jerk responded  "yeah, DIE ALLAHPUKES!!"

Very sad.

[Hillary pays minimum wage]

@ppppolls 30% of Republican primary voters nationally say they support bombing Agrabah. Agrabah is the country from Aladdin.


Would you support or oppose bombing Agrahbah?

Supporting bombing Agrahbah: 30%
Oppose bombing Agrahbah: 13%
Not sure: 57%


link to poll pdf: www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/GOPResults.pdf

Part of being an American is bombing other countries.  Get used to it.