Author John Ziegler commissioned Zogby International to poll Obama voters after he interviewed scores of them after the election for an upcoming documentary he is producing about the 2008 presidetial election. He noticed in his interviews that many of the Obama voters he spoke with left him with the idea that they had formed their decision to vote for Obama based on the media coverage of the campaign. After the poll was conducted Ziegler concluded that the poll reveals a "stunning level of malpractice on the part of the media in not educating the Obama portion of the voting populace."
The poll was conducted by the non-partisan John Zogby who has built a reputation for accuracy in recent elections. The poll was a 12-question, multiple-choice survey was conducted Nov. 13-15, 2008 of 512 Obama voters nationwide with a margin of error of +/- 4.4%.
Only 2% of those surveyed got a perfect score or 11 out of 12.
Only 54% of Obama voters were able to answer at least half or more of the questions correctly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pretty revealing about what many of us already know: the media is biased. They have been proving this for a long time, but this election manifested a level of a lack of objectivity that has never been seen before in American journalistic history.
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Originally Posted by deacon blues
Pretty revealing about what many of us already know: the media is biased. They have been proving this for a long time, but this election manifested a level of a lack of objectivity that has never been seen before in American journalistic history.
I am still amazed at how stupid people really can be. I'm trying to go a little lighter on the political stuff right now. I was soooooo angry during and right after the election. My husband said, "You need to get a hold of yourself."
A few nights ago the Lord reminded me that He, alone, made Pharaoh say and do everything He wanted him to say and do. I, of course, knew the story, but when God reminded me of that in way of settling me down - I'm better now and don't want to be that angry or fearful again.
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I first saw this yesterday afternoonon MSNBC. Imagine that! Gasp!
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I think i was pretty clear on that point.... for a year before the election?
that doesnt undo the simple and legtimate results of this poll....
I do wish I could make a comparison of these same questions for McCain supporters. It would provide a better benchmark by which to judege the results.
Personally, I would not be surprised if more knew about the Wright/ Ayers/ birth certificate allegations and all the hype surrounding Obama than legitimate policy matters as well...but I could be wrong.
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Personally, I would not be surprised if more knew about the Wright/ Ayers/ birth certificate allegations and all the hype surrounding Obama than legitimate policy matters as well...but I could be wrong.
I never one time heard the major media say one thing about Obama's birth certificate.
I actually learned more about that here on AFF than anywhere else. What an education we have going here.
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Personally, I would not be surprised if more knew about the Wright/ Ayers/ birth certificate allegations and all the hype surrounding Obama than legitimate policy matters as well...but I could be wrong.
I think the point of the poll was to find out what those voting for Obama knew about Obama.
These people could tell you all the dirt on Palin but nothing negative about their own guy. The point here is that their news source gave a biased one sided view.
What I want to know is does that hold true for those voting for the republican?
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I think the point of the poll was to find out what those voting for Obama knew about Obama.
These people could tell you all the dirt on Palin but nothing negative about their own guy. The point here is that their news source gave a biased one sided view.
What I want to know is does that hold true for those voting for the republican?
How could it? The libs control 95% of the media sources. We all heard about SP's earth shaking news. Its just many of us also have other news sources: talk radio, internet, Fox.
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