Some people will believe anything, as Blake Hounshell shows:
Percentage of Americans who believe in angels: 55 Percentage of Americans who believe in evolution: 39 Percentage of Americans who believe in anthropogenic global warming: 36 Percentage of Americans who believe in ghosts: 34 Percentage of Americans who believe in UFOs: 34
Hounshell is obviously disturbed by the results, but they’re pretty amusing in the context of this morning’s Qunnipiac poll which shows just 26 percent of Americans believe that President Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize he will accept later this week. Of course, some people believe they saw a UFO or a ghost or an angel, but I’ve yet to meet one of these 26 percenters who believes he saw this president do something worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize. When word of the award first came down, the AP tried (unsuccessfully) to find someone, anyone, in Washington who thought Obama had earned it.
