Poll: 30% of GOP voters want to bomb nation in Aladdin cartoon

The folks at Public Policy Polling are at it again, slipping a phony question into a poll and proving that public opinion does not equate to informed opinion.
In their newest survey they found that 30 percent of Republican primary voters say the national security threat posed by the nation of Agrabah demands U.S. military intervention and a bombing campaign.

Here’s the problem: Argabah is a fictional country in the 1992 Disney animated film “Aladdin.”

Public Policy Polling, a left-leaning firm but one known for its accuracy, also found that supporters of GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump were more likely to favor bombing the made-up Arabian nation from the film.

Sensing a dramatic flip-flop by GOP voters on the Syrian civil war and ISIS terrorism, Trump has been receiving rousing ovations at campaign rallies by declaring that he will "bomb the sh--" out of ISIS.

According to The Hill, the PPP poll released on Thursday found that the Republican primary front-runner won 45 percent support among those who advocated the bombing of Agrabah, compared to just 22 percent support from those who opposed it.
Overall, 13 percent of Republicans said they opposed bombing the country. A plurality of Democratic voters, 36-19 percent, also opposed the move.

PPP has made this type of punked-polling a running gag, including the time when Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder was the butt of the joke.

In May, when Snyder was still toying with the idea of running for president, PPP pollster Tom Jensen told a Detroit Free Press journalist that he, political reporter Paul Egan, could poll as high as Snyder on favorability in a state where the governor was an unknown.
Jensen decided to test his theory and was proven correct when Arizona voters participating in a PPP poll gave Snyder a 5/11 percent favorable-unfavorable rating. Egan stood at a 6/7 percent favorable-unfavorable status. The rest of the respondents admitted that they knew nothing about the two men.

In August, another PPP prank went viral when nearly one in 10 voters in North Carolina – home of the sun-swallowing solar panels – said they support a candidate by the name of Deez Nuts for president. Deez Nuts was a name officially registered as a presidential candidate by Brady Olson, a 15-year-old farm boy from Iowa. On a lark, PPP honored the boy’s request to participate in his experiment and include Nuts in their polling.