Buffett is nation’s most popular billionaire – CNBC poll
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Warren Buffett came in on top when we asked Americans to “rate their feelings” about some of the country’s most prominent business mega-billionaires, including Elon Musk.
None of them, however, managed to get a “positive” rating from even a majority of the randomly selected sample of Americans we polled.
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The latest edition of the CNBC All-America Economic Survey has 11% saying they feel “very positive” about Buffett and another 19% are “somewhat positive.”
Twenty-eight percent are “neutral,” while 9% are “somewhat negative” and 6% are “very negative.”
More than a quarter, 26%, didn’t recognize his name or are not sure how they feel.
The net differential is +15, the only positive result for the six billionaires we asked about in the poll.
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Elon Musk scored higher in the positive column with 35%, but that is completely offset by a 35% negative rating, which is not surprising since people seem to either love him or hate him. Only 11% said they don’t know his name or are not sure how they feel about him.
The poll surveyed 1,002 Americans between Dec. 8 to 12, with a margin of error of +/-3.1%.
In this report on “Squawk Box,” Steve Liesman looks at the details behind the headline numbers, finding, among other things, that Buffett is especially popular with men aged 50 and above, Democrats, people with stock market investments of more than $50,000, and those with an annual income or more than $75,000:
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