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Video: How Obama Got Elected - Interviews with Obama Voters
Posted by: Flap in Barack Obamawww.HowObamaGotElected.com by John Ziegler looks at how media coverage of the 2008 election impacted what Obama voters knew (or thought they knew) about the campaign.
Ed Morrissey has a summary of some of the stats.
- 57.4 could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)
- 81.8 could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)
- 82.6 could NOT correctly say that Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)
- 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)
- 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…..
- Only 13.7% failed to identify Palin as the person their party spent $150,000 in clothes on
- Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter
- And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her “house,” even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!
- On the last point, though, Palin was the only candidate from Alaska. Palin did state that one could see Russia from the state as an answer to an interview question about her foreign-policy credentials. I don’t believe that the survey gave Fey as a choice, so Palin would have been the obvious answer from those provided.
Well, we now know where many Americans receive or don’t receive their news, now don’t we?
Answer: SNL and Comedy Central
John Ziegler interviewed last night on Hannity and Colmes
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November 18th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
These stats may be amusing but they should scare the hell out of all citizens. What happened in civics class last year. Or maybe civics class has been eliminated. I say elect Tina Fey next time and at least we’ll all go down laughing.