1 In 3 Republicans Would Bomb “Agrabah”

More precisely, the number is 30 percent, and so too would 19 percent of Democrats. That’s according to a recent survey from Public Policy Polling,which has a record since 2008 of being among the most accurate of polling outfits, although with a tendency to throw in oddball questions from time to time. Agrabah is the fictional Arabian kingdom in the 1992 Disney movie Aladdin. PPP also found 54 percent approval for banning Muslims from entering the United States, and 28 percent for closing down mosques. Ilya Somin, Professor of Law at George Mason University, looks at these numbers, and some others, and places them in context that makes some of them look only slightly less alarming than they first appear.