Poll: Most Don't Know What "GOP" Stands For

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

Greedy Ol' Pricks? :shrug:







http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/10/03/poll_finds_americans_don_t_know_what_gop_stands_for.html

Do you know what GOP stands for? It’s not a trick question, though apparently it is a tricky question for the majority of Americans.

In a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll released Sunday, just 45 percent correctly answered a multiple-choice question about the meaning of the widely used acronym for the Republican Party. (For the record, it’s "Grand Old Party.")

More than a third guessed "Government of the People," while a few jokesters (one hopes) opted for "Grumpy Old People," "God’s Own Party," or "Gauntlet of Power." Fewer than one in 10 had the modesty to select "Don’t know."

Members of the GOP were marginally more likely to know what it means, with 51 percent of Republicans getting the right answer. Just 38 percent of Dems—er, Democrats—got it, though that may be partly because 9 percent of them opted for "Grumpy Old People."

[Warpy]

1. I like Gargantuan Oil Prices, myself.

Going Outta Power is also a fave.

However, the party is neither grand nor relatively old, it's an upstart party that has completely sold whatever soul it had in order to grab power for a few rich old men.

[livetohike]

2. Greedy Old Pissants? n/t

[OhioChick]

3. Global Oppression Party

[gkhouston]

4. Grossly Over-Privileged? n/t

[teddy51]

5. I say "Grumpy Old Pricks" instead of "Grand Old Party". n/t

[dwilso40641]

6. GOP

Every one should know it's Greedy, Old, Perverts.

[arcane1]

7. I think it's long past time to retire that nickname

but this makes me feel a little better, at least many people don't know what it means :)

[xchrom]

8. you mean it's not Greedy Old Pricks? nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

9. I know. nt

[Ron Green]

10. LED, RMS, TRW, SALT, NATO...

Most people don't know what those acronyms stand for, either. People aren't very smart (see photo in OP.)

[deutsey]

11. I've always liked "Greed Over Patriotism" n/t

[rurallib]

12. Greed, Oil, Privilege

I think that sums it the best

[chemenger]

13. Gigantic Obstructionist Pinheads

n/t

[dtexdem]

14. I know that it stands for 'Grand Old Party' but will never admit it.

;-)

[izquierdista]

15. Górnoslaski Okreg Przemyslowy (GOP)

Here's more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Silesian_Industrial_Region and a map.