"Half The Country Doesn't Know Who The Koch Brothers Are"

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Half The Country Doesn't Know Who The Koch Brothers Are

by Sam Stein at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/25/koch-brothers-poll_n_5030735.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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Of course, Democratic strategists would like it very much if more of the country knew who the Koch brothers are. With 25 percent of GW Battleground respondents saying they had a negative opinion of the brothers and only 13 percent saying they had a positive opinion, the Kochs do make decent political villains. And as Slate's Dave Weigel points out, the fact that roughly two out of every five Americans knows about the Kochs, despite their efforts to keep themselves and their influence-peddling hidden, is something of a vindication of Democratic strategic thinking.

To get a sense of how the Koch brothers stack up as campaign kindling, it also helps to look at past polls. No comparison is perfect: When the polls took place, the way the questions were asked, and the names of the other people or companies raised in those questions all affect the results. But the data do suggest that while the Kochs are relatively obscure (at least among the public at large), they aren't completely off the radar.

In May 2013, for example, YouGov discovered that 55 percent of Americans had heard of the Koch brothers. That was more than the 51 percent who had heard of investor and Democratic moneyman George Soros. Soros has long been a conservative villain but he hasn't played a starring role in campaigns of late.



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1. We have work to do.

[pipoman]

2. Half the country doesn't know who the vice president is...

[Fridays Child]

4. This thread calls for a...

Venn diagram!

[Gothmog]

3. We need to shine some sunlight on the Kochs

The Kochs hate attention. We need to help the rest of the American public learn about the Kochs.