Maybe it is because many of us are working. It could be all the open stores and laundromats.
But most people do not think that today’s federal holiday for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ranks up there as one of the nation’s important ones.
Just 34% told the Rasmussen Reports survey team that it is “most important.” Another 13% called it the “least important” federal holiday. And the bulk, 48%, said its importance is “somewhere in between.”
But the results also suggested that how the nation feels about the importance of the day should not detract from how they view the man most famous for his nonviolent demonstrations for civil and black rights before he was assassinated in 1968.
The polling outfit said 83% of voters have a favorable opinion of King, including 50% who have a very favorable opinion.
And a growing number of people believe his call for unity and equal opportunity has been met.
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“The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 40% of American adults think the nation has reached the day when men and women of all races have equal opportunity, just like King preached about in his famous ‘I Have A Dream’ speech 60 years ago. Forty-eight percent (48%) feel the United States has not reached a time of equal opportunity. Twelve percent (12%) are not sure,” the pollster said. “This year’s findings are an improvement from last year, when 54% said America had not yet achieved MLK’s dream.”
