11.18.08

Unbelievable!

Posted in Politics, Today, Worldview at 11:59 am by artistry

This is a shocking and appalling indictment, not of Obama, but of the people who elected him and of the news media who should have informed them. This video makes me wonder if there is hope left for our grand experiment in democracy.

The producers of this documentary commissioned Zogby to poll Obama voters. 512 voters were surveyed between November 13th and 15th … the sad results are below. Of those surveyed, 97.1% were high school graduates and 55% were college graduates. Percentage of error in the poll is 4%

Results to Multiple Choice Questions

  1. 57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)
  2. 81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)
  3. 82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)
  4. 88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)
  5. 56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).

And yet…..

  1. Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes
  2. Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter
  3. And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her “house,” even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!
  • Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.
  • Only .5% got all of them correct. (And we “gave” one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)

Sigh!

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