Who are the 26% who favor extending tax cuts for the wealthy?

[Zoroastor]

I suspect 2-5% are the ones who would be paying higher taxes. that leaves 21-24% who are just...what? stupid? ignorant? under a spell?

http://cons-lie.com/2010/12/04/only-26-of-americans-want-tax-cuts-extended-for-wealthy-apparently-they-are-the-same-26-who-turned-out-to-vote-last-month/

[tekisui]

1. Elected officials.

[me b zola]

2. The backwash n/t

[gratuitous]

3. 2% already wealthy

About 4% pretty well off, who are about to be wealthy. And 20% ignorant fools, scratching off lottery tickets in their single wide, dreaming of hitting it big.

[Toucano]

4. A few years ago, I read in the Harper's Index that 1 in 5 Americans don't believe the holocaust

was real.

From that day to this, I simply assume that 20% of every statistic and poll ever cited are complete idiots.

[Zoroastor]

7. Wow! too close to be coincidence

happen to have a link to that harpers article?

[Toucano]

9. I wish I did. As I said, it was some years ago.

I'll give a search...

[Toucano]

12. Well what do you know?

They've been busy putting the Index online since I last visited the site:

http://harpers.org/index/?q=Holocaust

[Zoroastor]

19. thanks!

[NNN0LHI]

5. Trust fund babies and lottery players

[Skittles]

6. the same 21-24% who supported that bastard bush to the end

[Andy823]

8. The same 26%

Who listen to Glen Beck, think Palin would make a good president, and who still think George W. Bush was a "great" president! Oh yeah, and the teabaggers who wear all those funny outfits and can't spell! They are all one and the same 26%!

[chelsea0011]

10. Zombies. Ever try to talk sense to a zombie? Can't be done.

[obxhead]

11. The 26% that think one day a magical fairy will come and make

them millionaires.

Some of my extended family suffers from this delusion. Combined they will never make enough in a lifetime to support 99% of Republican policy, yet they rabidly fight for it non the less.

[MrMickeysMom]

13. Cognitively impaired, Bush supporters, Reagan lovers

Who are too lazy to read, are in part too rich to care, or have no moral compass.

Oh, and they're probably all in Church on Sunday.

[Cerridwen]

14. The gatekeepers. Read Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" eom

[Historic NY]

15. rich, MF's....lets just eat them, problem settled.

[vixengrl]

16. That number comes up a lot--

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/The_26_Percent_Solution.html

Will Bunch noticed it last year--a weird coincidence.

It's made me take notice every time that number comes up, although it would be more interesting to me if it were 23%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_enigma

26% seems like an awful lot of very confused people.

[OHdem10]

17. About 20% Republicans are those hard right wingers then

the the levels of Republicans.

[RegieRocker]

18. A very dumb 20%