--- title: Agrabah: 30% Republicans Would Bomb The Country In Aladdin description: A new poll says 30% of Republican primary voters say they would bomb Agrabah. But Agrabah is the fictional country from Disney's Aladdin. canonical: https://time.com/4155228/amiercans-bomb-aladdin-agrabah/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-18T19:30:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:48.637Z article:section: Politics og:title: A Lot of Americans Support Bombing the Fictional Country From 'Aladdin' og:description: 30% of Republican primary voters say they would support bombing Agrabah og:url: https://time.com/4155228/amiercans-bomb-aladdin-agrabah/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67eac419245fdcc4/69887627ab6d77aa076a7a73/aladdin_1ae307.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: aladdin_1ae307 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Lot of Americans Support Bombing the Fictional Country From 'Aladdin' twitter:description: 30% of Republican primary voters say they would support bombing Agrabah twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67eac419245fdcc4/69887627ab6d77aa076a7a73/aladdin_1ae307.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A Lot of Americans Support Bombing the Fictional Country from _Aladdin_ > Sponsored content. 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US Airstrikes In Iraq_  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Dec 18, 2015 7:30 PM UTC  Walt Disney Pictures  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Dec 18, 2015 7:30 PM UTC A new poll found that many Americans—including 30% of Republican primary voters—say they would bomb the fictional country from Disney’s _Aladdin_, but the poll should be trusted about as much as the movie’s villainous vizier Jafar. The [poll](http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/GOPResults.pdf) came from Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, which likes to troll reporters and social media with humorously worded survey questions. A previous canvass compared the favorability of Vladimir Putin, the Republican-controlled Congress and dog poop, [for example](https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/677615323621826560)). The question was fairly straightforward: “Would you support or oppose bombing Agrabah?” (Agrabah is, of course, not a real country.) But it came after a long series of questions about things that have actually been in the news, such as criminal background checks of gun buyers, barring Muslims from entering the U.S. and raising the federal minimum wage. The firm asked Democratic primary voters too, and they opposed bombing Agrabah by 36%, though 19% supported the proposal. A release on the automated survey of 532 Republican primary voters did not include a margin of error. Based on its own tweets, the firm doesn’t take the poll too seriously: > [](https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/677876991278772225) > [](https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/677913184578215936) Though conservative commentator Bill Kristol did, tongue-in-cheek: > [](https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/677921525379563520) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4155228/amiercans-bomb-aladdin-agrabah/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4155228/amiercans-bomb-aladdin-agrabah/"},"headline":"A Lot of Americans Support Bombing the Fictional Country from Aladdin","datePublished":"2015-12-18T19:30:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:48.637Z","description":"30% of Republican primary voters say they would support bombing Agrabah","url":"https://time.com/4155228/amiercans-bomb-aladdin-agrabah/","keywords":["Polls","Newsfeed","republicans","Polling"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67eac419245fdcc4/69887627ab6d77aa076a7a73/aladdin_1ae307.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67eac419245fdcc4/69887627ab6d77aa076a7a73/aladdin_1ae307.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"aladdin_1ae307","caption":"","creditText":"Walt Disney Pictures","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/polls/","name":"Polls"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4155228/amiercans-bomb-aladdin-agrabah/","name":"A Lot of Americans Support Bombing the Fictional Country from Aladdin"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"US Airstrikes In Iraq","description":"US Airstrikes In Iraq","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/SR0C6Say/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-10-01T15:02:17.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/SR0C6Say.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4155228/amiercans-bomb-aladdin-agrabah/","duration":"PT47S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4155228/amiercans-bomb-aladdin-agrabah/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```