26% of Air New Zealand passengers would like to spend the flight snuggling with Sarah Palin. Really? Have they ever SEEN Sarah Palin?

"Does snuggling mean I have to touch them? Eeew!"

Courtesy of O'Dwyers Blog:

In celebration of the launch of its Skycouch service, Air Kiwi conducted a poll to find out which celebrities passengers would like to cuddle with during a long-haul flight. Jennifer Aniston took top honors, cited by 47 percent of men polled. She was followed by Megan Fox (37 percent) and Angelina Jolie (32 percent). 

Palin, the only politico on the list, ranked No. 4 at 26 percent. Only seven percent of surveyed females picked Sarah, proving once again that women are much smarter than men. Palin tied with Kim Kardashian, Beyonce, and Mila Kunis, who was the top choice of women with 27 percent. [Johnny Depp, George Clooney and Brad Pitt were the top men that women selected as cuddle partners. Hugh Hefner, Kobe Bryant and Arnold Schwarzenegger ranked on the bottom.] 

In a measure of sweet revenge, Palin nosed out her tormentor/impersonator Tina Fey, who clocked in at 24 percent. She crushed Lady Ga Ga, Rihanna, Kristen Stewart, Christina Hendricks, Emma Stone and Blake Lively. Men think Oprah, the political polar opposite of Palin, is the least cuddly celeb. Only eight percent of them would like a chance to snuggle with the media baroness. 

Like senility, Palin’s cuddle factor advances with age. Only two percent of men and women aged 18-to-24 want to cuddle with her, compared to 31 percent of those over the age of 55. On the educational front, Sarah scores best with college grads with a 29 percent score and worst (16 percent) with those without a high school diploma. Fox (32 percent), Beyonce/Aniston (31 percent) are favorites among the least school educated. Fey, at six percent, is the loser in that category. 

Okay at first I was WAY confused by this poll, because you know like..ick!

But then I read the entire article and realized that the men who chose Palin were mostly over 55, so I figured that their standards were probably lower, and they figured she was easy.

But then I also was puzzled by the fact that college graduates were more likely to choose her as well, but I have to assume that either they are intellectually curious about her and want to spend the flight studying her as a human oddity, or that they are closet Trig Truthers, who figure that by the end of the flight they might finally get to the bottom of the mystery.

Of course the possibility still exists that the passengers on Air New Zealand just have really bad taste in potential cuddle mates.

Any thoughts?

(P.S. Just for the record I would MUCH rather snuggle with Tina Fey than almost any other person on the list because she is both cute AND smart, which means that if the cuddling was not stimulating enough, the conversation definitely would be!)