How Obama Got Elected (9:54)
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Stumble Thishttp://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1642
"Just 2% of voters who supported Barack Obama on Election Day obtained perfect or near-perfect scores on a post election test which gauged their knowledge of statements and scandals associated with the presidential tickets during the campaign, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows."
"Just 2% of voters who supported Barack Obama on Election Day obtained perfect or near-perfect scores on a post election test which gauged their knowledge of statements and scandals associated with the presidential tickets during the campaign, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows."
Also, 12 people isn't very many people.
Cry like little babies.
The Obama haters are imploding!
From the video you can tell that the questions were made in at most 2 locations, with no information on the locations, for all we know the documentarian could have handicapped his results by cherry picking the worst interviewees from neighborhoods with notoriously low education standards. Also, there's no information on what requirements were set for the Zogby poll, just that they stand by the results of the survey they were hired to perform.
Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com has a fantastic interview with the guy who contracted Zogby to do the polling. The guy is a right-wing nutjob who's been hellbent on destroying anything even remotely close to "liberal" since the early eighties.
This is a great portion of Nate Silver's interview:
NS: Thank you, have a good day.
JZ: Go fuck yourself.
Too bad that we, humans can be corrupted so easily.
Won't argue with you on the one-sided perspective. I also have a strong distrust for most polls since the results can be so easy to manipulate. What I find entertaining about this is that if the roles were reversed here and it was an Obama supporter interviewing idiotic McCain supporters this would be flying through the queue.
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-McCain-Palin-Mob
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sidewalk-to-Nowhere-McCain-Supporters-in-Bethlehem-PA
http://www.videosift.com/video/More-Obama-Bashing
Those are just a few sifts that shot out to the front page and filled with comments on how those clips proved conservatives were all idiots. I'm just putting up the other side. I don't expect this to sift without plenty of begs.
Clearly this survey is incredibly biased, as well as others which are similar but favor the opposing side (and yes, the Sift favors the liberal side). However, it is a testament to mainstream news agencies' preference for controversy over meaningful substance (ie, subjects have knowledge of the $150,000 clothing story, but are oblivious to which party holds the majority of the seats in Congress). Regardless of one's political views, being an educated voter involves extensive sifting through massive amounts of misleading, slanderous garbage.
The references you site, are examples of McCain people generally being psychotic, and inciting violence against a sitting senator. This is not the same order of magnitude news/siftworthy.
Show me video of a crowd of Obama people actually calling for the assassination of McCain, and you would have a sift.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/interview-with-john-ziegler-on-zogby.html
"Go F* yourself"