Cheers and Jeers is a weekday post from the great state of Maine.
You’re Getting Polled in All Directions
With the exception of that one kid in science class whose time travel experiment went terribly wrong, the first quarter of 2025 is behind us. (And, thank god, the first two months of the last term of Very Bad Man is behind us, too.) That means it's C&J number-crunching time. Every few months we revisit the results of some recent C&J polls to give you a retro-snapshot of just what the hell "you people" were thinking back in the days from January through March, which went real slow until they were over, and now it seems like they went by real fast:
❧ When asked for your verdict on the presidency of Joe Biden, 64 percent of you gave him a grade of A, while 32 percent gave him a B.
❧ Should Canada make the U.S. its 11th province? 62 percent say yes. 31 percent say no.
❧ Do you support the Surgeon General's recommendation to add a label to alcoholic beverages that warn of their cancer risk? 65 percent say yes, 16 percent say no. The rest say "Hic!"
❧ Since the Trump administration will be a security risk to democratic nations, 98 percent agree that our allies should carefully limit how much sensitive intelligence they share with us. (We asked this in early January, and Signalgate certainly confirmed the wisdom of your opinion.)
All of our results are kept and guarded in this 100% DOGE-proof receptacle.
❧ Do you think you could handle the pressure and constant media attention of being the “World's Oldest Person?” 54 percent said no. 29 percent said sure.
❧ 77 percent of you rated Deb Haaland’s job as Secretary of the Interior under Joe Biden as “Excellent,” while 17 percent said it was “good.” (And 91 percent of you are thrilled that she’s running for governor of New Mexico.)
Meanwhile, 47 percent gave Secretary of State Antony Blinken an “Excellent” rating, with 38 percent saying he did a “good” job.
❧ How do you see your spending habits changing this year in light of the Republican plan to tank the economy and steal all the money? 66 percent plan to spend less, only 12 percent plan to spend more.
❧ 99 percent of you are not surprised that a bunch of MAGA insurrectionists, pardoned and freed by their cult leader, have been getting re-arrested and locked up for committing new heinous crimes.
❧ 12 percent of C&J poll respondents identify as LGBT or Q.
❧ 32 percent of you call spring your favorite season. 4 percent say it’s your least-favorite.
❧ And it almost goes without saying that 99 percent of you believe SecDef Pete Hegseth and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz should resign immediately over Signalgate.
As always, we bow to your superior wisdom. But not too low, because we hear that's tyranny. And now, our feature presentation…
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