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yallerdawg

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Fri Oct 21, 2016, 10:44 AM Oct 2016

Americans are more afraid of clowns than climate change, terrorism, and ... death

The problem seems to be some people don't recognize a clown when they see one!



http://www.vox.com/2016/10/21/13321536/clown-scare-sightings-2016

We live in scary times.

In 2016, we’ve seen hundreds of mass shootings. We’ve watched the gap between rich and poor Americans widen. We’ve witnessed the fulminant rise of Donald Trump, whose nomination left Vox editor in chief Ezra Klein “truly afraid” for the first time in American politics.

But in the eyes of our citizens, there is a graver threat at hand: clowns.

In a poll we conducted with Morning Consult last week, 42 percent of Americans said they were, in some capacity, afraid of clowns. Among voters ages 18 to 29, nearly one in three admitted to at least a minor case of coulrophobia — fear of clowns.



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Americans are more afraid of clowns than climate change, terrorism, and ... death (Original Post) yallerdawg Oct 2016 OP
Sometimes they are very stable. anamandujano Oct 2016 #1
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