Public Policy Polling (PPP) is a national polling company perhaps best known for being hilarious trolls. And they decided to continue that tradition by polling precisely what objectionable things are more popular than congress.
And if you’re looking for objectionable things, there’s only one place to turn: Twitter. Here’s what followed:
What are some really unpopular things/people that we could poll on to see if they might still be more popular than Congress after this week?
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) January 2, 2013
Twitter basically wrote the Congressional popularity poll for us so thanks Tweeps! Probably got over 100 good suggestions
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) January 3, 2013
Ok y’all we’re testing Congress’ popularity against 23 other things this weekend. They include root canals, Ebola, meth labs, and Nickelback
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) January 3, 2013
And how did that turn out?
Congress is less popular than colonoscopies, used car salesmen, and Nickelback but it’s at least beating out Gonorrhea and N. Korea so far
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) January 4, 2013
Sounds about right. We’ll keep you posted with any further developments.