POLL: 84% of Voters Say Keep Politics out of the Super Bowl LVII
Overwhelming Majority Says Political and Cultural Statements Not Welcome During Game’s Coverage, only 10% Disagree
(Austin, TX—February 07, 2023) Convention of States Action, in partnership with The Trafalgar Group—one of America’s most accurate pollsters in 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2021—is releasing the results of a new national survey. Results were from surveys conducted February 2nd through February 5th of over 1,000 likely general election voters.
“Sporting events in America have always been a place where Americans could come together and celebrate inspirational moments and find unity, such as 1984 USA men’s hockey team victory, or the singing of the national anthem in Yankee Stadium after the attacks on 9/11,” said Mark Meckler, President of Convention of States. “But the radical left’s obsession with making all aspects of American life subservient to their politics has found its way into our national pastimes, as they find new ways to divide us from our neighbors. The good news is the American people have had enough and are showing that they are ready to move past this obsession with woke politics and the stain it put on our nation.”
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KEY INSIGHT: 84 Percent of American Voters Say Super Bowl Coverage Should Avoid Political and Cultural Statements:
- 84.4 percent of voters believe sporting events, like the Super Bowl, should not include political or cultural statements as part of game and coverage, and should instead just focus on the game.
- 10 percent of voters believe sporting events, like the Super Bowl, should include political or cultural statements as part of the game and coverage.
- 5.6 percent of voters are not sure.
KEY INSIGHT: Large Bi-Partisan Majorities of Independents, Democrats, and Republicans Want Super Bowl Coverage to Avoid Political and Cultural Statements:
- 82.2 percent of Independent voters believe sporting events, like the Super Bowl, should not include political or cultural statements as part of game and coverage, and should instead just focus on the game. 11.3 percent say political or cultural statements should be included, and 6.5 percent are not sure.
- 76.7 percent of Democratic voters believe sporting events, like the Super Bowl, should not include political or cultural statements as part of game and coverage, and should instead just focus on the game. 15.6 percent say political or cultural statements should be included, and 7.7 percent are not sure.
- 93.4 percent of Republican voters believe sporting events, like the Super Bowl, should not include political or cultural statements as part of game and coverage, and should instead just focus on the game. 3.7 percent say political or cultural statements should be included, and 2.9 percent are not sure.
KJV Judges 16/27 “Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.”
With the printed Bible preceding the US Constitution by at least 175 years with the words “…about three thousand men and women, that beheld…” [“spectators,” added] and “sport” clearly stated within the text, ‘spectator sports’ is clearly outdated entertainment in the domain of the Church. Therefore, the question is not whether political and cultural statements should be kept out of spectator sports but rather should spectator sports still be practiced and supported on the public dime?
More specifically, should so-called “sports” replace driver’s education in public schools with multi-million-dollar stadiums, preclude public instruction in basic law that would enable graduates to defend themselves in various courts against minor offenses and should the ‘war mongering’ National Anthem be performed before such huge and volatile audiences of too often violent and injurious competitive events? If anything, why not have someone recite the Preamble to the US Constitution before each event, to inform and/or remind all present of that which American freedom was prescribed to be so long ago?
Anecdotally, most of the teams and stadiums are owned by billionaires and to pay excessive fees to them for a few hours of being additionally distracted from family and civic (like studying candidates and issues before elections, comparing them to constitutional mandates) duties. One last comment, for now, while physical education does belong in our schools, the camaraderie and teamwork that our youth learn in public schools also makes them more vulnerable and suggestible to mindlessly going off to elective wars that mostly protect the freedom and wealth of the abusive (e.g., Covid-19) ultra-rich who never pay their fair share in taxes. “SUPER BOWL LVII?;” super outdated, religious, economic, political nonsense!