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Poll: Is Roy or Coach K more popular?

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08:58 AM ET 06.20 | University of North Carolina men's basketball coach Roy Williams is more popular among state voters than Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, according to politically irrelevant but still interesting polls conducted by Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling. The firm did a poll on the statewide popularity of Williams last month and found that 61 percent of voters have a favorable opinion of the coach, who led his team to a national championship earlier this year.

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June 20, 2009  10:07 AM ET

Democratic polling firm. You know the numbers aren't accurate. Then again, it doesn't hurt to poll people in the same year one of then wins a championship.

June 20, 2009  11:26 AM ET

Um, yeah. He just won a national championship while Dook got hammered by a team we hammered. Of course Roy would be more popular. That and Dook sucks.

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June 20, 2009  09:55 PM ET

Seriously with this thing???

June 20, 2009  10:03 PM ET
QUOTE(#3):

Public Policy Polling uses polls as a guise for spreading Democrat Party talking points. Why would anyone think their polling process is factual or acurate especially with regards to a sports topic?Their "poll" consisted of one question about coach Krzyzewski, one question about the ACC, and 7 questions covering race, gender, age, locale, and political affiliation. Their release of the poll's "results" included a statement about new numbers on Barack Obama's approval in the state.This wasn't a sports poll. This was an attempt to gather more data on idealogogy, demographics and party affiliation in a state that has swung from red to blue. IF PPP thought that that North Carolina was going to get bluer -- i.e., more Democrat -- they wouldn't bother with this kind of thing. They used Coach K (and coach Williams a month earlier) as a way to keep people from hanging up the phone.Sports and politics don't mix. PPP should stick to fabricating and massaging data on Rush Limbaugh's popularity and leave sports alone, and FanNation should do more homework on the credibility of their sources.

Couldn't have said it any better.

June 20, 2009  11:18 PM ET

I love kittens!

June 20, 2009  11:56 PM ET
QUOTE(#3):

This was an attempt to gather more data on idealogogy, demographics and party affiliation in a state that has swung from red to blue. on the credibility of their sources.

From red to blue for one election cycle. Once the rational thinking moderates realize the hopey changey thing isn't working out so well it will go right back to solid Republican.

June 21, 2009  05:07 AM ET
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From red to blue for one election cycle. Once the rational thinking moderates realize the hopey changey thing isn't working out so well it will go right back to solid Republican.

so you're not for nationalized health care, unsustainable debt and govt ownership of major corporations?

June 21, 2009  08:28 AM ET

PPP was pretty accurate in predicting Obama was going to win last year. Don't let reality get in the way of your biases.

June 21, 2009  10:27 AM ET
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so you're not for nationalized health care, unsustainable debt and govt ownership of major corporations?

Not so much. In my line of work the only projects going on are government projects and that is very, very sad.

June 23, 2009  05:59 PM ET

I can see believe this. North Carolinians, by and large are very stupid.

 
June 25, 2009  05:08 PM ET

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