Pitching gun violence legislation during a major speech in Connecticut this past week, President Barack Obama noted that, according to multiple polls, 9 in 10 Americans agree that somebody purchasing a firearm needs a background check.
“How often do 90 percent of Americans agree on anything?” he joked, drawing laughter from the audience.
In collaboration with the online polling firm YouGov, The Huffington Post set out to answer that question. What we found: Not often.
We asked about the most popular, least controversial things we could think of, and we found only one thing — ice cream — that garnered more approval than background checks do on some surveys.
More Americans, it turns out, support universal background checks than like apple pie, baseball, kittens and child labor laws.
April 15, 2013 5:58 AM
