Valentine's Day? Most Are Indifferent, Poll Finds

Where is the love? According to a new poll, most adults don't feel too warm and fuzzy about Valentine's Day -- in fact, most of them are indifferent toward the love-centered holiday.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 5 percent of American adults consider Valentines Day one of the nations most important holidays. Most -- 63 percent -- rank it among the least important holidays, while 31 percent say its somewhere in-between.

Twenty-eight percent of adults say they look forward to Valentines Day while 19 percent dread it. Over half -- 51 percent -- say Feb. 14 is just another day -- they neither look forward to nor dread the holiday.

According to the poll, men are more than twice as likely as women to dread Valentines Day, while women are just slightly more likely to look forward to it. Married adults tend to be more likely to look forward to the holiday, while unmarried adults are more likely to dread it.

The survey of 1,000 American adults was conducted Feb. 9-10. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95 percent level of confidence.