New documentary reveals how little some Obama voters knew

This is to show how the media played a huge roll in misinforming voters. This does not intend to show anyone as stupid.

Zogby Poll (in a mult. choice questionaire):

* 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)

* 86.3% identified Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes

* 93.8% identified Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter

* 86.9 % thought that Palin said 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)

The media shouldn't step out of bound and manipulate their audience into thinking their way or in this case, voting their way. If a doctor manipulates his patient into doing a treatment without fully disclosing all the facts, benefits and risks alike, he would be dragged in front of the ethics committee and beaten up with the malpractice suits. I believe the same ethics should apply to the media. Although it may not be a life and death situation, but there are "side effects" if we vote wrong in this election.

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[gdwag01]

Obama is killing this country.

[whenis2012]

Calling Palin a loser. Hmmm, right now the whole country is a loser for having a wimp in office who's spending ALL our money. Tell me what great accomplishment he has done in the last 6 months? Ahh, the fear you liberals are feeling right now is priceless! Lovin' it!

[zyxweftr]

@Shnufkin sensible democratic country? one of the most important rights is the right of free speech. that would communist not democratic

[hookalakah]

A far more mundane disappointment in charismatic individuals is that they sometimes reveal themselves to have been smooth-tongued empty suits without the capacity to deliver results.

[jmn120176]

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry. It's clear that stupidity and ignorance run rampant on the left. Unfortunately, stupid people in large numbers elected the biggest disaster ever to hit this country. There really should be intelligence testing as a prerequisite to vote. Colmes didn't survey republicans, did he? At least, he didn't report how stupid THEY were.

[Shnufkin]

@ccpdsr Fox news is the only irresponsible form of American media (apart from right-wing radio hacks) that I can discern. It would be closed down by a media regulator in any sensible democratic country.

[kcjk1991]

LOL. I cant believe he said racist lol. Actually, if you compare Black Republicans with White Democrats, the Republicans are sooo much smarter but that's because they're Republicans :D

[hoboboxerjoe]

@MBlue83 climbing a latter just to accumulate more and more and more (which from what I understand is completely against the character of Jesus Christ's teachings, oh the irony!) in a society which will consume every last drop of oil on the planet at the expense and suffering of the poor. Masses freezin to death, starving, without hope. And anyone foolish enough to think it's the fault of those countries and those people needs a reality check. The Bible is a worthless book, it is obsolete

[hoboboxerjoe]

@MBlue83, extremely fanatical people might say they don't care much because god is coming and blah blah blah. But for them to have kids and say that is just crazy. The truth is, a resource-based society would eliminate over 90% of all social problems. There are more serial killers alive today than any other time in recorded history (unless you count soldiers/plunderes, pretty close) mental illness is on the rise, teen self-mutilation, depression, pregnancy. And same with adults. The stress of..

[hoboboxerjoe]

@MBlue83, biggest killers in the history of mankind combined. There is not a single famine in the past century that was caused due to food shortages. 18,000 children each die starve to death. Going past the blatant plagarism in the Bible iand the Quran is sun worship, it all goes back to primitive human devlopment. We are greedy because at one point it was necessary, we are aggresive because at one point it was necessary. We came up with religion, rough-housing, acting, etc. for entrainment/hope

[hoboboxerjoe]

@MBlue83, our monetary system, which perpetuates consumption on a finite planet, and the religion and practices the Bible promotes NEVER took into account that we live on a finite planet with finite resources. It's that simple. Nature, like it or not, IS A DICTATORSHiP. You can fall in line, or we can slowly die off. To quote this documentary (Zeitgeist Moving Forward) "this monetary paradigm won't let go until ith as killed the last human being alive." Religion, greed, and money are the...

[hoboboxerjoe]

@MBlue83 "clinging to a bible" represents an irrational and improvable attatchment to something that, at best, is a picky-choosy of "I accept this part but not this part." It encourage and promotes ignorance, and to shy away from anything scientific that might stomp on the oh-so-worthless safety blanket of blind, worthless, untested, unproven belief.

Unlike many, I do not place blame on anyone . People who are indocternated can be at any time in their lives