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Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for November 29, 2017
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November 29, 2017: The Pew Research Center reports that 40% of Americans believe rule by experts is a good way to govern society. Pew defines rule by experts as a society in which "experts, not elected officials, make decisions according to what they think is best for the country." Fifty-eight percent (58%) disagree and believe it would be bad.[1]
Those figures include 9% who believe such a system would be very good and 31% who believe it would be very bad.
Americans are much more enthusiastic about representative democracy. Eighty-six percent (86%) believe it’s a good system, while only 13% see it as bad.
Those figures include 48% who see it as very good and 5% who see it as very bad.
Sixty-seven percent (67%) see direct democracy as a good system. Thirty-one percent (31%) believe it would be bad.
Each weekday, Scott Rasmussen’s Number of the Day explores interesting and newsworthy topics at the intersection of culture, politics, and technology.
- November 28, 2017 – 55 percent of Americans have no preference for male or female boss
- November 27, 2017 – 107.4 billion dollars in online holiday sales expected this year
- November 22, 2017 – 29 percent of Americans in 1963 thought Oswald acted alone
- November 21, 2017 – 21 million new jobs created by the robot revolution
- November 20, 2017 – 1,884 candidates running for Congress in 2018
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