Poll Finds Which Candidate Americans Trust To Handle An Alien Invasion

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Who would you rather have a beer with? Who would you prefer have babysit your kids? Who would you rather take on a road trip to see the annular eclipse? These and other meaningless questions are asked of voters every quadrennial presidential cycle as pollsters' tire of the boring and static head-to-head matchup. Well, a poll by USA Today, commissioned for National Geographic, has finally pierced the heart of the issue voters are really concerned about about but dare not speak of ' which candidate would better handle an alien invasion. The answer: President Barack Obama.

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65 percent of those surveyed trust President Obama handle the crisis that accompanies an alien invasion of Earth better than Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

21 percent would prefer Marvel Comic's Hulk would take on the invaders. Only 12 percent left the crisis to the capable hands of Batman and just 8 percent said the same of Spider-Man.

17 percent of poll respondents do not believe in aliens while 36 percent do. 48 percent were not sure.

However, 79 percent believe that the government has kept information about alien life secret from the public. 55 percent of those surveyed believe there is a federal agency akin to the Men in Black whose job it is to keep those who spot UFOs from spilling their findings to the press.

The survey was commissioned for National Geographic Channel's new series Chasing UFOs which primers on Friday at 9 p.m. EST.

h/t Politico

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• Imagine Mittens giving that speech at the end of the movie.Oh boy'zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

• Wonderful!!!

  When Romney becomes president, he can appoint Obama as the 'Alien Czar!'

• Well Krugman gets my vote on this issue as he has already suggested that our government begin investing billions to thwart off the eventual attack.

• Scientologists would be all buddy-buddy with them.

• Silly poll, everyone knows Obama would 'bow down' to the aliens, then they'd have us for lunch.    

  I think of the scene from Independence Day where the President gives an inspirational speech where he assures we'll stand up to the attackers saying 'We will not go quietly into the night, we will not lay down without a fight' Today is our Independence Day!' ' and then watch a snippet of George Bush standing on the wreckage of 9/11 giving an impromptu response to a fire fighter 'They will hear ALL of us soon!'.    Both the fictional and non-fictional were powerful moments, and epitomize America's willingness to stand up to evil acts, even though unfortunately we also many times pretend to ignore evil acts.  Still, what makes us different than other countries is we both have the capability and the will to stand up to those who would enslave us or our friends.   Don't hold your breath on a Socialist government doing that.

• Obama would be good because he speaks their language.

• This stuff matters, sadly. How would a cretin like Bush get even close to winning the presidency otherwise? If people don't like you, you need a disater to hit the other guy in order to win. Mitt knows this and is hoping the economy gets a lot worse between now and November. Let's face it, if the economy doesn't get worse, Mitt ain't winning shit.

• 65 percent of those surveyed trust President Obama handle the crisis that accompanies an alien invasion of Earth better than Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

  Mittens has a personal relationship with the head man from planet Kolob.  Figured for sure he would win this one.

  Are you sure Rasmussen didn't do this poll? It seems to be about as accurate as most of their work.

• So why did Bush win in 2000?  Why did Bush Sr win in 1988?    You are clearly filled with a lot of hatred, but perhaps hidden in there is an actual opinion based on some (hopefully not warped) reasoning?