Americans are getting stupider. Let's blame it on Fox News and Pat Robertson: CBS on AOL: Majority of Americans Reject Theory of Evolution. Of course, as always, we take these polls with a grain of salt. Because polls suck.
SARCASM. Look it up. Oh, and thanks for the link love! =)
Herein lies the problem with the written word; the tongue firmly planted in the cheek is not visible.
A thousand apologies. (By the way, I feel precisely the same way about polls as do you. Until they print the questions asked next to the results, they will remain worthless bits of journalistic piffle.)
I am, unfortunately, decidedly unsarcastic about the status of government schools.
By the way, your Contact link in the upper right hand corner is, shall we say, under the weather.
Or we can blame it on government schools, as their attendance, and their influence, is exponentially greater than the ratings and reach of all the people and entities you metioned combined.
And whilst Fox News and Pat Robertson are unqualified successes, ... .