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How Obama Got Elected II: Voters Just As Stupid As They Were In The First Poll!

By: Pam On: Dec/3/08 - 4 Comments

Back on November 18, I posted Video: How Obama Got Elected… Interviews With Obama Voters. Much ado was made of the results and a charge of push polling was made.

Ziegler reponded by offering a double-or-nothing challenge to anyone who wanted to fund another Zogby survey, but Zogby said no.  Ziegler went with a Wilson Research Poll, and the results from Obama voters were virtually IDENTICAL in both polls.

Here are the highlights:

  • Those that got “congressional control” wrong voted 65-35 for Obama.35 % of McCain voters got 10 or more of 13 questions correct.
  • 18% of Obama voters got 10 or more of 13 questions correct.
  • McCain voters knew which party controls congress by a 63-27 margin.
  • Obama voters got the “congressional control” question wrong by 43-41.
  • Those that got “congressional control” correct voted 56-43 for McCain.

Where do these voters get their information from?

  • Those “exposed” to Fox News got “congressional control” correct 64-25 (+39)
  • Those “exposed” to CNN got “congressional control” correct 48-38 (+10)
  • Those “exposed” to Network news got “congressional control” correct 48-39 (+9)
  • Those “exposed” to print media got “congressional control” correct 52-37 (+15)
  • Those “exposed” to MSNBC got “congressional control” correct 55-35 (+20)
  • Those “exposed” to talk radio got “congressional control” correct 61-29 (+32)
  • Voters in the “South” had the best response rate on “congressional control” (+22) (dumb hicks from the south~Pam)
  • Voters in the “Northeast” had the worst response rate on “congressional control” (+9) (Smart eastern seaboard educated city slickers~Pam)
  • Those “exposed” to Fox News voted 70-29 for McCain.
  • Those “exposed” to CNN voted 63-37 for Obama.
  • Those “exposed” to MSNBC voted 73-26 for Obama.
  • Those “exposed” to network newscasts voted 62-37 for Obama.
  • Those “exposed” to national newspapers voted 64-36 for Obama.
  • Those “exposed” to talk radio voted 61-38 for McCain.

What about the major stories from the campaign trail?

  • Those that could associate Bill Ayers’ name/story with Obama voted 52-48 for McCain (We added Ayers name to the “Zogby” question and it significantly increased the rate of correct response, indicating a very superficial grasp of the overall story).
  • Those that knew Obama had made negative comments about “coal power plants” voted 76-24 for McCain.
  • Those that knew Obama had his opponents knocked off the ballot in his first campaign voted 66-34 for McCain.
    McCain voters did poorly (only 42% correct) on the Keating question and,in general, the voters did universally worse on questions where the negative information was about their candidate
  • Women under 55 did worse than they might have by guessing on four of the thirteen questions, and yet 95% of them knew that Palin was the candidate with a pregnant teenage daughter. Even 95% of those in this demographic group who didn’t know “congressional control” got this question correct.
  • Those “exposed” to MSNBC “scored” 90% correct on the three Palin questions (including an incredible 98% on the “pregnant teenage daughter” question), while those not “exposed” to MSNBC averaged 84% correct on those three questions.

Full Wilson Research Strategies Data and Cross-tabs >>

Overall, the Obama voter was less informed than the McCain voter.

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4 Responses to “How Obama Got Elected II: Voters Just As Stupid As They Were In The First Poll!”

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    December 3, 2008 - 12:04 PM on December 3rd, 2008

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    December 3, 2008 - 01:24 PM on December 3rd, 2008

    [...] (H/T – Pam) [...]

  3. Fred Dawes
    December 3, 2008 - 07:11 PM on December 3rd, 2008

    The vote means nothing only the guy who counts the vote’s means something and we all know full well voting inside a want-to-be police state is always a joke.

    THE USA Has become a new way to become a full police state and all of you will understand that fact soon.

  4. Fred Dawes
    December 15, 2008 - 02:59 PM on December 15th, 2008

    I have been questioned about what i have put up as post’s over the years the start of the police was not bush it will be obama, you will really miss bush in the coming years.

    Long live freedom you will be forced to fight for any kind of freedom soon.

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