Not as disturing as it should be, since my prediction on the election was basically that Obama would win because people know very little about what’s going on accept what Obama told them and told them he would give them.
The extent to which people are robots to the what the media told them is a bit startling. Almost 1984-esque. How will anyone rage against the establishment when they only get their information from the establishment? Isn’t the counterculture supposed to question authority? Isn’t that what academia has taught us all along?
Either that or there’s just a lot of intellectually lazy people. But oddly, they didn’t know anything about things Obama or Biden said, but had startlingly high correct answers on things Palin said.
“How Obama Got Elected” did a national survey and interviewed people and show this theory in startling detail. No wonder Obama told people not to listen to Fox News…and they did listen without question.
Survey Results:
The poll surveyed over 500 self-professed Obama voters and has an MOE of 4.4%, with 55% having a college degree and over 90% having a high-school diploma. It asked 12 multiple-choice questions; only 2.4% got at least 11 correct. Only .5% got all them correct.
- 57.4 could NOT correctly say which party controls congress
- 81.8 could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism
- 82.6 could NOT correctly say that Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot
- 88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket
- 56.1 % could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground
Amazingly, they did know certain negative facts about the candidates…
- 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.
Related links:
http://www.howobamagotelected.com/
Zogby defends the survey: http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1641
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/11/18/video-how-obama-got-elected/
