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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (29965)	11/29/2008 1:07:11 PM
From: Peter Dierks	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 71588

Released: November 18, 2008 Zogby Poll: Almost No Obama Voters Ace Election Test Survey finds most Obama voters remembered negative coverage of McCain/Palin statements but struggled to correctly answer questions about coverage associated with Obama/Biden UTICA, New York -- Just 2% of voters who supported Barack Obama on Election Day obtained perfect or near-perfect scores on a post election test which gauged their knowledge of statements and scandals associated with the presidential tickets during the campaign, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows. ... Only 54% of Obama voters were able to answer at least half or more of the questions correctly. ... Obama voters did not fare nearly as well overall when asked to answer questions about statements or stories associated with Obama or Biden -- 83% failed to correctly answer that Obama had won his first election by getting all of his opponents removed from the ballot, and 88% did not correctly associate Obama with his statement that his energy policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry. Most (56%) were also not able to correctly answer that Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground. Nearly three quarters (72%) of Obama voters did not correctly identify Biden as the candidate who had to quit a previous campaign for President because he was found to have plagiarized a speech, and nearly half (47%) did not know that Biden was the one who predicted Obama would be tested by a generated international crisis during his first six months as President. In addition to questions regarding statements and scandals associated with the campaigns, the 12-question, multiple-choice survey also included a question asking which political party controlled both houses of Congress leading up to the election -- 57% of Obama voters were unable to correctly answer that Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate. ... zogby.com ............................................................. You mean the level of 'ignorance' of 53% of the American voting public? ““Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Sir Winston Churchill Corollary: Those who learn from the media are doomed to fail history, and civics.

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