Tuesday, November 18, 2008

This is your brain on Hope

Via Hot Air, which links How Obama Got Elected with this info on Obama voters:

  • 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).

I pointed out weeks ago that 41% of CNN viewers didn't know Democrats controlled Congress. This goes back to my whole point about "low-information" voters. Don't overthink it!

(Cross-posted at AmSpecBlog.)

3 comments:

  1. This is Obama Nation...

    But remember it is all really about hope and change...oh, don't forget Hussein is going to pay your rent, mortgage, car payments, health care, re-education camp, prayer rug, GPS compass pointing to Mecca & Marx' London tomb,etc.

    YES WE CAN.........

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  2. I comment on the poll here. Some of the questions are wrong or disputed, and that continues a trend of BHO's opponents not being too bright, a trend that led to his election.

    If BHO's opponents who have megaphones had not made the same mistakes as are made in the poll, he wouldn't have been elected.

    Unfortunately, I don't expect too many people to learn from those mistakes.

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  3. Any chance that this will be a headline on NY Times, CNN, or MSNBC?

    Any chance they will even mention that their coverage was highly criticized?

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