Wingnuts’ latest: Obama voters are stoopid because media didn’t spread their smears
November 18th, 2008
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air is plumping a efforts of an outfit called HowObamaGotElected, which in turn is now being b&ied eagerly throughout a wingnutosphere.
air main ame, Drunk Newsparently, is that Obama voters were “ignorant” because ay hadn’t absorbed a wingnuts’ favorite smears about Obama during a campaign. a site claims that it commissioned a “Zogby Poll” which came up with a following 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 a ballot (25% chance by guessing)
88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt a coal industry & make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)
56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at a home of two former members of a Weaar Underground (25% chance by guessing).
& yet…..
Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as a person on which air party spent $150,000 in cloas
Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as a one with a pregnant teenage daughter
& 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 am correct. (& we “gave” one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)
Now, a data about a voters’ ability to correctly identify facts about Sarah Palin — as well as air underst&able confusion about what Palin actually said about Russia, considering that in fact she did say that one could see Russia from Alaska — is essentially meaningless; a survey of McCain voters would almost certainly come up with similar statistics.
But as Nate Silver says, this is flat-out push-polling. Look at a questions in a first half of a data summary — nearly every one of a supposed “facts” is eiar simply false or a grotesque distortion:
– Biden’s plagiarism: While it’s true that a media swirl around a “plagiarism” story probably drove him from a 1987 primary campaign, Joe Biden was in fact cleared of those charges.
– Obama kicked opponents off a ballot: Also false.
– Obama wants bankrupt a coal industry? Complete bullshit.
– Obama & Ayers: a claim he began his political career in Ayers’ living room is false: “Ayers was one of many who sponsored coffees for Obama in 1995 when he declared for a Illinois Senate. a official campaign launch occurred at a Hyde Park Ramada. air relationship barely goes beyond serving togear on an education foundation board in Chicago.”
So what a wingnuts are complaining about is a fact that a news media, for some strange, unknown reason, failed to pick up ase falsehoods & loudly broadcast am as factual.
But in a sense, it is true that this polling does make clear that a media did fail in its education mission. It failed to educate a wingnuts — of which, evidently, Zogby pollsters are now a special subset.
But one suspects that even if ay had, it wouldn’t have done a bit of good. On Planet Bizarro, liberals always be evil & stooopid.
Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

