Fausta’s Blog

Ed has the video:

Watch it and weep: An electorate so clueless and ignorant that doesn’t even know who controls Congress.

As Ed says,

However, the rest of these results show the abysmal state of media coverage of Barack Obama. It’s not that the voters couldn’t absorb data provided to them by the Tanning Bed Media; these voters quite obviously learned plenty about Sarah Palin. In the video, the subjects demonstrate that by assigning every stupid thing said on the campaign trail to Palin whether she said it or not. Meanwhile, no one can figure out what Barack Obama said, how he conducted his campaign, or his political history.

Dr Melissa agrees, while News Busters notices that

After you stop laughing at how ill-informed these Obama voters are, you will realize how lacking our education system is and how extensively these voters’ perceptions are shaped by the mainstream media. In fact, many of these voters identified PBS, Bill Maher, Jon Stuart, NPR, etc. as their sources for information.

More at How Obama got elected.

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