How Obama Got Elected

This will depress the hell out of you...

Former Radio host John Zeigler put together a little video interviewing Obama supporters asking them certain questions. He also commissioned Zogby to conduct a poll with the same questions. He's posted the results up on HowObamaGotElected.com

Check out the video. You won't believe it...


You think the media is doing their job? You think the American people are doing their job? These people are getting their news from Saturday Night Live and Bill Maher. The negatives about Palin were overwhelmingly known. While the negatives about Obama were a mystery. Look at the Zogby Poll results:

512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points

97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates

Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions

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).

And yet.....

Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes

Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter

And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that 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)

An uninformed public has given us the next "most powerful man in the world" because John Stewart, Bill Maher, and Tina Fey didn't like the other guy. Talk about your Political Nightmare.

George Bernard Shaw once wrote "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." Which is to say a populace that buys into the best advertising campaign instead of making an informed vote will get exactly what they ask for. Well, if I may...

You asked for it, you got it, Obama.