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25 September 14
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article below is satire. Andy Borowitz is an American comedian and New
York Times-bestselling author who satirizes the news for his column,
"The Borowitz Report." 
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a positive development for the U.S.-led campaign of air strikes in
Syria, a new poll indicates strong, broad-based support for the mission
among people who have yet to read a news article about Syria.
According to the poll, released on Tuesday, the
bombing campaign got a thumbs-up from people who had no information
about Syria’s civil war, including its duration, the parties involved,
and what a Sunni is.
Additionally, the air strikes garnered enthusiastic
support from people who could not correctly identify the President of
Syria, tell what the acronym ISIS stands for, or locate Syria on a map.
According to pollster Davis Logsdon, who supervised
the survey for the University of Minnesota’s Opinion Research Institute,
the poll numbers augur well for the mission going forward.
“People who have not read a single article about Syria
are a key constituency because they represent an overwhelming majority
of Americans,” he said. “And when you asked the follow-up question of
whether they intended to read an article about Syria in the future,
their answer was a resounding no.”
According to Logsdon, the bombing campaign also earned
high marks from another important group, Americans who think that they
maybe read a news headline about Syria but did not click on it.
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