PRESIDENT AND ACCOUNTED FOR

HALF OF AMERICANS CLAIM THE STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH IS MORE IMPORTANT TO THEM THAN THE SUPER BOWL, BUT WE STILL CAN'T TELL YOU WHO MILLARD FILLMORE WAS.

THE 60 MINUTES/VANITY FAIR POLL

A in't it the truth: we Americans have so much—so much—to appreciate. Starting with our spouses. (A good place to start: they might be reading this.) More than two-thirds of married Americans would change nothing about the people they're married to; parsing further, this month's poll shows that men, who clearly know what's good for them, are more reluctant than women to say they'd suggest any improvements at all. We also appreciate the changes wrought by immigration—yes, Lee (not the Virginia Lees) and Garcia are indeed now more common names than Evans and Hill. Almost as heartwarming is the revelation that Americans appreciate, by a vast margin, Sean Connery as "the best James Bond." (Still, we'll never know whether the poll might have gone all topsy-turvy had we thrown David Niven into the mix for Casino Royale)

What else do we appreciate? Well, an impressive new military folly—always. The perennial top poller in the category War We Should Have Avoided Most, Vietnam, now finds itself nosed out by Iraq, 39 percent to 37 percent. And we appreciate children; two, most Americans feel, is the ideal number to have. Although three, come to think of it, sounds best for a lot of us. As does four or more. And, for that matter, one. So, we're easy—when it comes to kids.

If all that suggests an eye for quality, let it be noted that Americans also have an eye—a no less discerning eye—for lack of quality. Presented with a list of U.S. presidents, plus the ringer Alexander Hamilton, we were asked to detect the non-president in the bunch. The largest percentage picked not Hamilton but Millard Fillmore, considered by many to be one of our worst presidents, but nevertheless a president. Choosing him as a non-president won't actually make him a non-president. Still, the sentiment is, well, to be appreciated.

This poll was conducted at the CBS News interviewing facility among a random sample of 1,185 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone January 20-23, 2012. Some low-percentage answer choices have been omitted.

Which one of these televised events is the most important to you?

State of the Union 51% 4O% 12% 14% 11% Super Bowl 32 40 30 31 25 Academy Awards 9 13 9 8 8

Two 51% Three 23 Fourormore 10 One 5 None s73o~ow 2 9

In general, what do you think is the ideal number of children for a family to have?

How many guns do you own?

Yes 30% 116% 137% 63% No answer 70 84 63 37

Which one of the following surnames do you think is the most common in the United States?

Which one of the following actors made the best James Bond?

None 67% 81% 62% 59% 70% One 9 6 6 13 9 Two 6 3 7 6 6 Three 3 2 3 3 4 Four or more 12 6 17 15 9

Lee 32% 27% 37% 34% 28% Garcia 30 32 25 25 39 Evans 15 16 13 16 12 Hill 13 14 14 13 11

Sean Connery 56% 39% 62% 63% 57% Pierce Brosnan 10 15 12 7 7 RogerMoore 9 2 10 15 8 Daniel Craig 7 17 5 6 1 George Lazenby 1 1 1 0 0 Timothy Dalton 1 2 0 0 0 Don't know 16 24 10 9 27

Which one of the following wars do you feel most strongly that the United States should have avoided?

War in Iraq 39% 22% 56% 38% Vietnam War 37 51 30 33 Waron Drugs 11 10 8 13 War 1812 4 4 2 5

If you could change one thing about your spouse, which of the following would it be?

Nothing at all 68% 74% 62% Their relatives 14 11 16 Their weight 11 9 13 Their age 4 3 4 Their height 2 1 3 Their laugh 1 1 1

Which one of the following people was never president of the United States?

Millard Fillmore 36% 38% 28% Benlamin Harrison 27 29 26 Alexander Hamilton 24 1 8 35 Andrew Jackson 5 6 6

Music downloads 11% 22% 12% 6% 2% Streaming TV 6 11 7 3 3 Movie downloads 5 9 6 2 4 None of them 76 54 74 88 89

Which one of the following forms of online piracy are you most tempted to engage in?