The force is strong with the American public who, in a new poll, said they’d rather elect Star Wars characters Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi president than the political party’s two current frontrunners.
Yoda trumps Republican frontrunner Donald Trump by 18 points, with 42 percent saying they’d support the Jedi in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup, while 24 percent would support Trump, according to an Ipsos Public Affairs poll.
Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton also gets trounced by the little green guy, with 41 percent of respondents on team Yoda and 25 percent ready for Hillary.
Kenobi, also known as Ben, also beats both politicians by double-digit margins.
He receives 39 percent support to Trump’s 24 percent, and 37 percent support to Clinton’s 26 percent.
Clinton has a slight edge against Chewbacca, earning 32 percent to the Wookie’s 28 percent of support.
When Trump goes up against the character, the GOP hopeful loses to him 28 percent to 30 percent, though Trump’s loss is within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percent.
The poll was conducted online and in English and surveyed 1,005 adults.
About one in five Americans consistently cheered for the Dark Side, though Clinton and Trump both beat Darth Vader, with Clinton performing slightly better against the former Anakin Skywalker.
The poll shows that Clinton would earn 33 percent to Vader’s 20 percent.
Trump would beat Vader by nine points, with Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia’s dad earning 20 percent, to Trump’s 29 percent.
Both Star Wars and the presidential election are sucking up news coverage this week, with the new J.J. Abrams’ directed installment, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, hitting theaters Thursday.
On the politics side of the galaxy, the Republican field of candidates will be debating tonight in Las Vegas, while the Democratic field will face off Saturday in New Hampshire.
And in a real head-to-head match-up, Clinton is beating Trump by 10 points.
‘Whether it’s due to this week’s release of Episode 7, or general disdain by Americans toward their political system, this data suggests that the Jedi Order is vastly more popular than either the Republican or Democratic Party,’ said Chris Jackson, vice president of Ipsos Public Affairs, in the release.
‘As we have seen in much of the political data this year, our Republic is more now fractured than ever,’ Jackson continued.
‘However, it seems the that the force could “surround us and bind the universe together,”‘ Jackson added, quoting Kenobi.
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probably because people know that even though the fictional characters dont exist, they would still do more in a positive way ,than any of the current pukes we have to choose from .. this tells me a lot
The poll should have asked respondents if they even knew that some of the choices were fictional.
The media has so successfully brainwashed so much of the population, that I’m not sure many Americans know the difference between fiction and reality anymore.
“… I’m not sure many Americans know the difference between fiction and reality anymore.”
NOT!
The matrix IS their reality.
And God help you if you try to convince them otherwise, JR.