RASMUSSEN: Just 53% say capitalism is better than socialism. Hey, that’s a bigger percentage than Barack Obama got in November, and that was supposed to be a landslide! And capitalism doesn’t get the friendly press that Obama enjoyed . . . .

And note this proviso:

It is interesting to compare the new results to an earlier survey in which 70% of Americans prefer a free-market economy. The fact that a “free-market economy” attracts substantially more support than “capitalism” may suggest some skepticism about whether capitalism in the United States today relies on free markets.

Yeah, at least in the financial and automotive industries it’s more a kind of state capitalism. And, in fact, “Just 14% believe the federal government would do a better job running auto companies, and even fewer believe government would do a better job running financial firms.”