Posted by
davecatbone on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:17:33 PM
There are some who take issue with my description of a percentage of our electorate as being dumbed down. My only error may be in describing them as moderates. Even in that I'm not sure I'm wrong. But nonetheless, for your consideration, comes this little tid bit courtesy of Zogby and a post called
How Obama Got Elected:
512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points
97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates
Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions
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 Barack 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 Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes
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!!
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)
Pawns, dupes, rubes, intellectual sloths, these are the people who got Obama elected, (along with those on the Right who didn't vote) and who are the pliable, the shape-able, the leadable mass that the Enemedia targets. And another glaring reason the privilege to vote shouldn't be extended to everyone who breathes (although the Democrats have problems with even that).
UPDATE: 11.19.08
"We stand by the results our survey work on behalf of
John Ziegler, as we stand by all of our work. We reject the notion that
this was a push poll because it very simply wasn't. It was a legitimate
effort to test the knowledge of voters who cast ballots for Barack
Obama in the Nov. 4 election. Push polls are a malicious effort to sway
public opinion one way or the other, while message and knowledge
testing is quite another effort of public opinion research that is
legitimate inquiry and has value in the public square. In this case,
the respondents were given a full range of itresponses and were not
pressured or influenced to respond in one way or another. This poll was
not designed to hurt anyone, which is obvious as members of society. But Zogby
International is a neutral party in this matter. We were hired to test
public opinion on a particular subject and with no ax to grind, that's
exactly what we did. We don't have to agree or disagree with the
questions, we simply ask them and provide the client with a fair and
accurate set of data reflecting public opinion." - John Zogby