How Obama Got Elected
November 20th, 2008How Obama Got Elected
Now It Makes Sense
How did Obama supporters fare on a Zogby poll which surveyed their knowledge of their candidate? Um, not so well…
What They Got Right:
- 94% 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.
- 81% chose McCain as the candidate who was unable to identify the number of houses he owned.
And Not So Right:
- 87% chose Palin when asked which candidate said they could “see Russia from their house” – although the quote actually is attributed to Saturday Night Live’s Tina Fey during her portrayal of Palin during the campaign.
- 83% failed to correctly answer that Obama had won his first election by getting all of his opponents removed from the ballot.
- 88% did not correctly associate Obama with his statement that his energy policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 57% of Obama voters were unable to correctly answer that Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate.
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