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Mere 1% of Americans Can Correctly Identify Nation's Top Global Enemy

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Favored pick "Iran" won this season's Gallup poll for "America's Top Enemy" by its highest-ever margin, wow! A full third of Americans picked Iran as their most dreaded bogeyman this year (up from a quarter last year) for, eh, some sort of reason. Perhaps a follow-up "why" question might have been interesting or informative here, pollsters? Nope. Gallup cheated and filled in the essay section on its own without Americans' help, as may be noted from the conspicuous lack of JEE-HAD and TERRORIZM mentions in their concluding analysis to explain Iran's ongoing dominance in this award category: "Iran's continued public announcements of its growing nuclear capabilities, its threats of war with U.S. ally Israel, and the possibility that Iran could disrupt the flow of oil out of the Middle East and further affect domestic oil and gas prices no doubt all contribute to Americans'...
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