Obama’s voters: not so smart; delusions of Hopeychangy danced in their heads

An interesting follow-up poll to the one I linked here, h/t Dan Collins


Wilson Research PollThe 12 “Zogby” questions were duplicated, one on the Keating scandal was added for extra balance. The results from Obama voters were virtually IDENTICAL in both polls.Here are the highlights:

35 % of McCain voters got 10 or more of 13 questions correct.

18% of Obama voters got 10 or more of 13 questions correct.

McCain voters knew which party controls congress by a 63-27 margin.

Obama voters got the “congressional control” question wrong by 43-41.

Those that got “congressional control” correct voted 56-43 for McCain.

Those that got “congressional control” wrong voted 65-35 for Obama.

The poll also asked voters to name all the media sources from which they got information.

Those “exposed” to Fox News got “congressional control” correct 64-25 (+39)

Those “exposed” to CNN got “congressional control” correct 48-38 (+10)

Those “exposed” to Network news got “congressional control” correct 48-39 (+9)

Those “exposed” to print media got “congressional control” correct 52-37 (+15)

Those “exposed” to MSNBC got “congressional control” correct 55-35 (+20)

Those “exposed” to talk radio got “congressional control” correct 61-29 (+32)

Voters in the “South” had the best response rate on “congressional control” (+22)

Voters in the “Northeast” had the worst response rate on “congressional control” (+9)

Those “exposed” to Fox News voted 70-29 for McCain.

Those “exposed” to CNN voted 63-37 for Obama.

Those “exposed” to MSNBC voted 73-26 for Obama.

Those “exposed” to network newscasts voted 62-37 for Obama.

Those “exposed” to national newspapers voted 64-36 for Obama.

Those “exposed” to talk radio voted 61-38 for McCain.

Those that could associate Bill Ayers’ name/story with Obama voted 52-48 for McCain (We added Ayers name to the “Zogby” question and it significantly increased the rate of correct response, indicating a very superficial grasp of the overall story).

Those that knew Obama had made negative comments about “coal power plants” voted 76-24 for McCain.

Those that knew Obama had his opponents knocked off the ballot in his first campaign voted 66-34 for McCain.
McCain voters did poorly (only 42% correct) on the Keating question and,in general, the voters did universally worse on questions where the negative information was about their candidate

Women under 55 did worse than they might have by guessing on four of the thirteen questions, and yet 95% of them knew that Palin was the candidate with a pregnant teenage daughter. Even 95% of those in this demographic group who didn’t know “congressional control” got this question correct.

Those “exposed” to MSNBC “scored” 90% correct on the three Palin questions (including an incredible 98% on the “pregnant teenage daughter” question), while those not “exposed” to MSNBC averaged 84% correct on those three questions.


As the November election gets dissected and more facts come out, we’ll see that Obama’s election was a media-manipulated farce, playing to an audience of delusional devotionalists. We’ve already seen Obama’s promises start to shatter in the face of icy reality. His appointments of mostly forgotten Clintonistas (including the wife of Bilious Bill himself) tells us just how shallow the left’s pool of qualified candidates really is. Exemplar, this one (h/t Ace):

For the rainbow cabinet of the nation’s first African American president, Mary Beth Maxwell is the perfect labor secretary you’ve probably never heard of: a gay woman, community organizer and labor leader with an adopted African American son. And this founding executive director of American Rights at Work is about to get the full-court press.

Impeachment watch starts January 20th!

3 comments:

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  2. William, 5. December 2008, 1:56

    a gay woman, community organizer and labor leader with an adopted African American son.
    Man, that’s horrible… how could that happen in KKKristian white America?

     
  3. Serr8d, 5. December 2008, 19:22

    That’s not the point, William. The Newsbusters post points out that the WSJ reporter shouldn’t have had to mention those ‘facts’…

    How is someone “perfectly” qualified for the cabinet by their sexuality, or by the race of their adopted children? Why doesn’t anyone in the political press have any skepticism about the relevance of race, gender, and sexual orientation in determining every single high government appointment?

    Jonathan Weisman is reporting unnecessary, superfluous information. Begs the question, what Mary Beth’s ‘real’ qualifications are? Who cares if Mary Beth Maxwell was ‘punished by a baby’? The question should be, can she do the job?

    If the only qualifiers are those enumerated, then Barry is selecting more to satisfy Democrat’s identity politics criteria than for more important (experience?) reasons. We wouldn’t select a president for those shallow sorts of reasons, now would we?

    Wait..

     

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