{"id":1509954,"date":"2024-12-26T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1509954"},"modified":"2024-12-26T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T08:00:00","slug":"41-of-college-aged-voters-consider-unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing-acceptable-new-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/41-of-college-aged-voters-consider-unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing-acceptable-new-poll-finds\/1509954\/","title":{"rendered":"41% Of College-Aged Voters Consider UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing &#8220;Acceptable&#8221;; New Poll Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">41% Of College-Aged Voters Consider UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing &#8220;Acceptable&#8221;; New Poll Finds<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article\/41-of-college-aged-voters-consider-unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing-acceptable-poll\/27192\"><em>Authored by Adam Sabes via Campus Reform,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>41% of college-aged voters consider the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thomas as \u201cacceptable,\u201d according to a new poll&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJjYW1wdXMucmVmb3Jt%20%282%29_1.jpg?itok=pBrgp55R\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Emerson Polling conducted the survey of 1,000 registered voters between Dec. 11-13, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/12\/17\/united-healthcare-ceo-killing-poll\"><em>Axios<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A whopping 41% of voters aged 18 to 29 years old either consider the killing of Thomas as \u201cacceptable\u201d or \u201csomewhat acceptable.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Support for the killing drops significantly in older generations, as 23% of voters aged 30 to 39 support the killing and 13% of those aged 40 to 49.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just 8% of voters aged 50 to 59 support the killing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One professor at the University of Pennsylvania apologized after praising Luigi Mangione, who allegedly killed Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>In several posts, University of Pennsylvania Professor Julia <strong>Alekseyeva called Mangione \u201c[t]he icon we all need and deserve\u201d and took pride in the fact that he graduated from the same institution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In her apology, Alekseyeva\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thesoviette\/status\/1866671563321335912\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLate last night I posted a TikTok, as well as several stories on my Instagram. These were completely insensitive and inappropriate, and I retract them wholly. <strong>I do not condone violence and I am genuinely regretful of any harm the posts have caused.<\/strong>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall, 68% of voters surveyed consider the actions of Thompson\u2019s killer unacceptable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Wed, 12\/25\/2024 &#8211; 22:00<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/41-college-aged-voters-consider-unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing-acceptable-new-poll-finds\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/41-college-aged-voters-consider-unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing-acceptable-new-poll-finds<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>41% Of College-Aged Voters Consider UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing &#8220;Acceptable&#8221;; New Poll Finds Authored by Adam Sabes via Campus Reform, 41% of college-aged voters consider the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1509955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}