A new survey asked Americans who they’d like to see added to their money, asking “if the government planned to redesign American coins and bills,” who they’d support making it onto the new money. Candidates with the highest level of support include Theodore Roosevelt (49 percent), Martin Luther King, Jr. (49 percent), Harriet Tubman (43 percent), Rosa Parks (43 percent), Albert Einstein (39 percent) and Eleanor Roosevelt (39 percent). However, Einstein did kick up around 24 percent in opposition, so that might be a tough sell. Figures with particularly high levels of opposition included Walt Disney (49 percent opposed) and Elvis Presley (48 percent), who both bear the distinct mark of being more opposed than Robert E. Lee (38 percent opposed). Other individuals polled include inventors (Edison, 36 percent in favor), patriots (Paul Revere, 32 percent), international sex symbols (Marilyn Monroe, 14 percent) and writers (Mark Twain, 27 percent), but honestly we’ve got those bases already covered by the inventor patriotic entertaining sex symbol writer, Benjamin “Entertainment” Franklin.
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