Surprise: As many people excited about primaries as they are about Super Bowl

[NoBorders]

I'm pleasantly surprised by this. Just another indication of how intense people feel about the election this year. I suppose war and recession will actually rouse some people from their sleep a litte.

Most of the interest is on the Dem side, btw. No surprise there.

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It's the motherlode of presidential primaries vs. the perfect season this week, and neither is a clear winner in the hearts of Americans according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll out today.

About four in 10 adults said they are more excited about the Super Bowl, while nearly the same proportion were more fired up for the Super Tuesday primaries. Among football fans, just a quarter pick the primaries, while just a third of college graduates prefer the game.

And in a nation divided along political party lines, the Super Bowl doesn't quite bring the country together. Democrats, who expressed greater interest than Republicans in the primary campaign for nearly all of 2007 in Post-ABC polling, were more interested in Super Tuesday than the Super Bowl, while Republicans divide about evenly between the two "Super" events. Independents lean toward the big game.
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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2008/01/which_super_do_you_choose.html

[Snarkoleptic]

1. We're going to watch Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet and talk politics.

[Ishoutandscream2]

2. I'm not excited about the Super Bowl

and I'm a football fan. Tuesday is what I'm highly anticipating, as are we all here.