Another hilarious set of findings from the same NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll:

Republicans, however, now enjoy an edge on dealing with the economy, dealing with immigration, dealing with taxes, dealing with Afghanistan, reducing the deficit, promoting values, controlling government spending, and combating terrorism.

If I had to rank those in order of hilarity, I think “reducing the deficit” and “dealing with the economy” would be tied at the top, with “controlling government spending” nipping at their heels.

The American public seems to think that all we really need, in order to deal with our most pressing problems, is a lot of hot air and an infinite amount of false rhetoric.

It’s depressing enough that Republican politics today seems to be all about identifying, and exploiting, key areas of gullibility. What’s worse is that it actually works so well.