Of all the polls, I most enjoy the "how stupid are Americans" kind of polls. In a poll of the good citizens of Tennessee:

• Over two-thirds (36%) of Tennesseans see Bush as having better morals than Kerry, while only 14% see Kerry as having better morals than Bush. 10% view neither one as moral. [I wonder how many of those polled could articulate a moral poistion?]
• a plurality (49%) of Tennesseans describe Bush and Kerry as equally intelligent. Just over a quarter (28%) perceive Kerry as more intelligent than Bush, and 15% say Bush is more intelligent than Kerry.
• Bush’s support is strongest among Tennesseans who are white and who describe themselves as Evangelical Christians. Nearly two-thirds (65%) of such Tennesseans say they plan to vote for the Bush/Cheney ticket. And among whites who do not identify themselves as Evangelicals, 45% support Kerry compared to the 41% who support Bush. [the pollsters apparently missed the obvious follow-up question: what does "evangelical" mean?]
• Most Tennesseans perceive Bush as better able than Kerry to handle the situation in Iraq (54%) and terrorism (59%). Just over a third (35%) think Kerry would handle Iraq better than Bush, and 11% aren’t sure. On handling terrorism, just over a quarter (29%) say Kerry would do a better job than Bush, and about 12% aren’t sure. [again, the pollsters didn't ask "should we be in Iraq at all"]
• Asked which issue – the economy, terrorism, Iraq, or health care – will be most important in their vote for president, 27% of Tennessee adults say Iraq, 25% say the economy, 23% say terrorism, and 18% say health care. [it is astounding that the Republican fear-machine has been so effective across the country; do do Tennesseans think that the terrorists hate both freedom and cotton farmers?]
• Only about half of Tennessee adults can accurately name Kerry as the candidate who supports rescinding the recent federal income tax cuts for people earning over $200,000 a year.
• Only about half (50%) rightly name Bush as the candidate who favors giving parents tax-funded vouchers to help pay private or religious school tuition.
• Well under half (42%) are aware that Bush wants to let younger workers put some of their Social Security withholdings into their own personal retirement accounts.
• Just over a quarter (28%) rightly name Bush as the candidate who supports giving needy people tax breaks that would help buy health insurance from private companies.
• Just 39% know that Kerry advocates requiring plants and factories to add new pollution control equipment when they make upgrades.
• Tennesseans averaged only two right answers when quizzed about which candidate held which view on the five issues. A fifth (20%) got no right answers, and 19% got one answer right. Another fifth (20%) got two right answers, and still another fifth (20%) got three right answers. Only 13% got four right answers, and a mere 8% got all of the answers right.
• Even so, Tennesseans profess a high degree of interest in the campaign, with 71% describing themselves as "very interested," and 23% as "somewhat interested." Only 6% say they are "not at all interested."

Frankly, though, I don't expect that a poll of people in New York or California would be much different. It is a sad day when Americans regard a man as "moral" who invades a soverign nation for no reason, who awards wartime contracts to his friends, and who loots the treasury all the while.