Pres. Obama is hoping that we're goddamn idiots out here, still cowed by talk of 9-11

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214. That sounds really good

and it is up to a point. But the article grabs individual questions from multiple polls and consolidates them into one article. The picture it paints of the American public is both correct and misleading at the same time.

It's not a poll of voters, or likely voters. The questions they grabbed are social justice/cultural issues; there's almost nothing on national defense, national security, counter-terrorism, etc.

And when you look at the links the individual polls, the picture gets less cohesive. The cherry picking of questions smooths over the deep ideological divides that exist between the two major parties.

These are fine polls and fine polling organizations. The picture the article paints of American opinion on social justice/cultural issues is real, but with caveats.