Poll: Same Number Know About Edwards' $400 Haircut That Know Saddam Didn't Have WMDs
By Greg Sargent
Here's some cheery news for a Friday. Buried in the new Fox News poll is a startling number that doesn't reflect terribly well on the priorities of our political media:
From the new Fox poll of registered voters:
32. Do you happen to know which presidential candidate has been in the news recently for paying four hundred dollars for a haircut?
Edwards 44%
Hillary 2%
Obama 1%
Other 1%
Don't know 53%
So astonishingly, nearly half of respondents knew about Edwards' haircut and were able to volunteer his name off the top of their heads, as it were.
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So just for the fun of it, we went and dug up the most recent poll we could find on the question of whether people know that Saddam didn't have WMDs.
From a Harris Interactive poll on July 21, 2006:
Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. invaded.
True 50%
Not True 45%
http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/jun/08/poll_more_know_about_edwards_400_haircut_than_knew_saddam_didnt_have_wmds