Who says polls aren't good for anything?
Now for the really controversial polling data of the day. From Public Policy Polling:
PPP recently polled North Carolinians to find out who they pull for in the Duke-UNC basketball game. The results:UNC 40%
Duke 24%
Don't care 36%
Maybe it's just the crowd I run with, but the number that seems off to me there is the 36 percent that don't care. We probably live in the one state in the union where people don't think ESPN is over-hyping the coming Duke-UNC (or is it UNC-Duke) showdown.
Of course, unlike with elections, polling data doesn't really reflect the likely outcome of the game...or does it?
For the record, I'm not a college basketball fan but do take sides in Lacrosse.