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I haven't seen any of these interpretation polls with a good random sample, as opposed to niche meetings.
One of the commenters below the Carroll blog post you linked suggests that poll was from a meeting organized by a Copenhagen proponent:
The Tegmark "Everett@50" (even more obvious bias there, but this one allowed a "none of the above/undecided" option which was very popular) conference results are discussed in this paper:
A 1997 workshop:
More polls are cited at Wikipedia.
And there is a strange one, for which I don't yet have a link to the original, critiqued at Wikipedia and discussed here, that claimed majority support for MWI in a a sample of 72. The argument for it being compatible with other polls is that it includes a lot of cosmologists, who tend to support MWI (it makes it easier to explain the evolution of the universe as a whole, and perhaps they are more open to a vast universe extending beyond our vision), but something still seems fishy about it.