Obama supporters were ignoramuses
Posted on November 28, 2008
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.
The 12-question, multiple-choice survey found questions regarding statements linked to Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his vice-presidential running-mate Sarah Palin were far more likely to be answered correctly by Obama voters than questions about statements associated with Obama and Vice-President-Elect Joe Biden. The telephone survey of 512 Obama voters nationwide was conducted Nov. 13-15, 2008, and carries a margin of error of +/- 4.4 percentage points. The survey was commissioned by John Ziegler, author of The Death of Free Speech, producer of the recently released film “Blocking the Path to 9/11″ and producer of the upcoming documentary film, Media Malpractice…How Obama Got Elected.
“After I interviewed Obama voters on Election Day for my documentary, I had a pretty low opinion of what most of them had picked up from the media coverage of the campaign, but this poll really proves beyond any doubt the stunning level of malpractice on the part of the media in not educating the Obama portion of the voting populace,” said Ziegler.
Ninety-four percent of Obama voters correctly identified Palin as the candidate with a pregnant teenage daughter, 86% correctly identified Palin as the candidate associated with a $150,000 wardrobe purchased by her political party, and 81% chose McCain as the candidate who was unable to identify the number of houses he owned. When asked which candidate said they could “see Russia from their house,” 87% chose Palin, although the quote actually is attributed to Saturday Night Live’s Tina Fey during her portrayal of Palin during the campaign. An answer of “none” or “Palin” was counted as a correct answer on the test, given that the statement was associated with a characterization of Palin.
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.
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It wasn’t just their general ignorance. Finding ignorant voters is like shooting fish in a barrel.
It was their specific ignorance that this survey highlighted. The 18-to-1 bias against Palin by the Big 3 obviously had a big impact. These people knew just what the MSM wanted them to know.
The people interviewed were generally wrong across the board:
- Ignorance of basic facts such as which party currently controls Congress
- Believing lies about Republicans
- Unaware of the truth about Obama / Biden
It was an ugly but very successful hat trick for the media.
Proof positive that our Democracy is finished unless the franchise is restricted to educated property owners and taxpayers. If you cannot answer simple questions about our government, if you do not pay taxes on property or income, you should not be allowed to select the people who will run the country. Your vote is meaningless. Witness the people who really believe that Obama will pay their mortgage and their gas bill. Obama! Woooooo!!!!!
I like the Rhodesian model, and believe that the post-UDI Constitution was the only workable model for the future. I think that is the most important reason that the US and Britain wanted them destroyed. Along the Rhodesian model anyone who paid taxes or was educated to a certain degree was eligible to vote and to stand for office. No racial qualification was included. With such standards, they guaranteed themselves an aristocracy of merit which would stand forever. The quality of the other Western Democracies would decay (as ours has done) but the Rhodesians would still offer only men of great character and genius. I imagine that every person with a 3 digit IQ would have already emigrated to Rhodesia by now. Funny, millions have fled the “one man-one vote” Zimbabwe.
That was “supposed” to be the stop-gap of the Electoral College. BUT… In 2000 (when it WORKED like it was supposed to), all it caused was Democrats howling for Bush’s head and throwing about accusations of stealing the election. It’s too bad this poll did not also ask voters about the 2000 election, how the Electoral College works, and any other of the proofs of the failing of the educational system in this country.
I am not a property owner, but I do happen to pay income taxes (”double-dipped” being self-employed), but I *DO* happen to be well educated – of my own initiative in matters of economics, civics, and history – and I agree that there should be some type of electoral “litmus test” before being allowed to cast a vote. ACORN wouldn’t have a leg to stand on, were that the case.
“double-dipped” being self-employed)”
Yowch! Sorry to hear it! I consult, so I’m in the same boat! Maybe if you have the guts to be on your own, pay your own payroll taxes PLUS income taxes and manage your own healthcare your vote should count TWICE!
Like that would ever happen. HOWEVER, I do get the privilege of spreading my wealth around to those who choose not to work 120 hours a week, having to buy my kids’ clothes from garage sales and Salvation Army while trailer trash wearing Nikes and Gap jeans to school tease and ostracize my kids for wearing THEIR hand-me-downs; or buying food in crates from Save-A-Lot while DH’s ex-psycho eats filet mignon… still collecting a welfare check somehow even though we ended up with custody of the kids (although I guess it’s possible she just decided to start charging admission for her favorite “hobby” – making use of the revolving door on her bedroom…).
Some people suck.
Well I backed Obama and I could answer all of those questions correctly.
Ah Republican bitterness. It just never gets old does it? Are you the same people trying to defend George Bush? Lol. It must kind of suck to be you right now, huh? It’s going to be wonderful to watch the lives of Republicans get steadily worse over the next four years as their incompetent party runs itself into the ground.
I am both amused and appalled to find there are people here discussing property ownership as a condition for voting, that they have deigned themselves as “informationally superior” to select the direction of this country. Apparently, these self-proclaimed superior voters have not yet realized that a very significant decision has just been ratified by your fellow voters, millions more strong than you. And if you think we were stupid in voting for Obama. . . well, the greatest tragedy of the truly stupid is that they are too stupid to know how stupid they really are. If you can get out of of your disaffected smug pout, you may find that we have a bright articulate President-elect who your fellow Americans chose with eyes wide open.
Colin
Anyone who says Obama said he would bankrupt the coal industry is a bald face liar.
New tactic over the next four years, you heard it here first. Republicans will blog posing as the far Left who are outraged they are not getting what they want. Pressure from the Left will move Obama to the right. Simultaneously blog posing from the center complaining about Obama not delivering.
Don’t worry Obamaclowns, we’ll treat Obama exactly the way you treated Bush. We trust you have no problem with that.
They looked like cows being led to slaughter when I went to the Obama rally to protest. I had never really expereienced the cult of personality until I experienced his supporters in Springfield, MO at JFK stadium.
Colin,
You can’t even write English sentences correctly. Do you think you are smart enough to vote? If you do, you are wrong.
Colin,
While we are at it. What has Obama accomplished that leads you to believe he is “bright”? He refused to release his college transcripts, so for all you know he was a straight “D” student. He was in the Senate for about 20 minutes. He voted “present” more often than anything else. Does that indicate the sort of brain power required to manage the country? He never served in the military, so we don’t know if he has the character to lead. As a lawyer, his career was marginal at best. The shortchanged babysitter and the chilly tenant were his most “important” cases. Just what (other than black skin) stands out about this person?