What best represents the image of America; Microsoft, the NFL, or Wal-Mart?
According to almost half the respondents in a new CBS-Vanity Fair poll, America is Wal-Mart all the way.
The poll was conducted between August 27 and August 31 by CBS news which called 1,097 random respondents nationwide.
Half of all respondents also said that raising taxes on the richest Americans by 50 percent was a good idea.
On a scale of personal sins, having an extramarital affair lost out with only two percent to politicians taking bribes, which 37 percent of respondents felt was the worse.
Most men said they’d rather change places with George Clooney (26 percent) than Barack Obama (24 percent) for a day. But women said they’d rather trade places with Michelle Obama over Hillary Clinton by 26 to 16 percent. Angelina Jolie ranked 13 percent.
Do the image of America and the image Americans have of themselves have anything to do with how many Americans leave the U.S. each year to live abroad?
Millions of Americans currently live outside the U.S., but their reasons for going are difficult to track. For many, the worsening economic conditions and budget deficit in the U.S. lead the list. In fact, health care bankrupts a million or more people a year in the U.S., making affordable health care offshore a major factor in leaving the U.S.
