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A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows that only 53% of American adults think capitalism is better than socialism (20% favor socialism, and 27% don’t know). As Nate Silver points out, there’s very little basis for comparison with this survey, so it’s hard to make any predictions about trends. Nate also provides the crosstab data for different income brackets, which is the most interesting part of the results. Those in the lowest income brackets favor capitalism by only 8 points, and capitalism has a 57-point lead only among the wealthiest Americans.