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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction

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To: ManyMoose who wrote (78135)	3/7/2010 8:44:06 PM
From: greenspirit	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 90947

I got the same score! Dang, I missed a couple of easy ones. :-) I don't get #33. Did you see the summary? What a bunch of dunderheads! Of the 2,508 People surveyed, 164 say they have held an elected government office at least once in their life. Their average score on the civic literacy test is 44%, compared to 49% for those who have not held an elected office. Officeholders are less likely than other respondents to correctly answer 29 of the 33 test questions. This table shows the “knowledge gap” for each question: the difference between the percentage of common citizens who answered correctly and the percentage of officeholders who answered correctly. americancivicliteracy.org Here's the biggest problem! Both the people and policians don't know the basic definition of free enterprise. Definition of Free Enterprise 41.45 32.08 -9.37 Free Markets vs. Centralized Planning 16.25 10.71 -5.54

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