{"id":301,"date":"2012-11-06T12:32:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T12:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=301"},"modified":"2012-11-06T12:33:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T12:33:02","slug":"six-in-ten-voters-believe-in-demonic-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2012\/11\/06\/six-in-ten-voters-believe-in-demonic-possession\/","title":{"rendered":"Six in ten voters believe in demonic possession."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not real surprising, yet somewhat disappointing. Turns out Pubic Policy Polling conducted a poll that revealed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fifty-seven percent of voters believe possession is possible. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to believe in demonic possession by a 68 percent to 49 percent margin. Furthermore, women are more likely than men to believe possession is possible by a 59 percent to 56 percent margin.<\/p>\n<p>More interestingly, even though most registered voters believe possession is possible, only a minority \u2014 37 percent \u2014 believe in ghosts, while 57 percent of voters don\u2019t believe in ghosts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, but ghosts are nothing. There&#8217;s something even more scarier than these wisps of the night.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite, widespread fear of ghosts and demons, they don\u2019t actually rank as the scariest monster. That dubious honor goes to zombies with 29 percent of voters saying they are the scariest, and coming in a distant second were vampires with 15 percent saying they are the scariest monsters. However, the category \u201csomething else\u201d did actually beat out vampires suggesting voters have something much spookier in mind than lame Twilight vampires.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Need more scary numbers? <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/10\/31\/scary-poll-shows-that-nearly-six-in-ten-of-voters-believe-in-demonic-possession\/\">Surf here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Not real surprising, yet somewhat disappointing. Turns out Pubic Policy Polling conducted a poll that revealed: Fifty-seven percent of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what","tag-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}