Should we really care about the 20 Percenters in polls?

A recent poll showed that 18% of Americans believe President Obama is a Muslim. That’s almost 1 in 5. But before we get too concerned, consider that nearly 1 in 3 Americans believe 9/11 was an inside job pulled off by a massive Government conspiracy. Bear in mind that almost all of that ⅓rd also adamantly believe the government is completely incompetent and can’t do anything successfully. Fully 20% believe ET is here living with us.

Look at it this way. If you have ever seen Jay Leno’s Jaywalking segment, the folks he interviews are just your average American on the street. So if the Jaywalking interview subjects represent the mean (middle score) intelligence on the American IQ bell curve, what can you really expect from the bottom 20%? In light of that, should we really care about the 20 Percenters?