http://www.plime.com/politics/You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!en-us57917http://www.plime.com/politics/l/57917/1/they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."]]>201884/11/2008 4:58:32 PM2008-04-11T16:58:32+01:0058915http://www.plime.com/politics/l/58915/1/11174/18/2008 9:39:48 PM2008-04-18T21:39:48+01:0080652http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/80652/1/link fixed]]>1128810/30/2008 4:51:21 PM2008-10-30T16:51:21+01:0058115http://www.plime.com/politics/l/58115/1/3434/13/2008 11:48:55 PM2008-04-13T23:48:55+01:0082116http://www.plime.com/politics/l/82116/1/
All of this was conducted for a forthcoming documentary on how the news media impacted the 2008 election. Please get on our mailing list and return to this website in the coming months for more information on the film, "Media Malpractice... How Obama Got Elected"

Because obviously interviewing a relative handful of Obama voters, while interesting, is hardly scientific proof of anything, we also commissioned a Zogby telephone poll which asked the very same questions (as well as a few others) with similarly amazing results.

Zogby Poll

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)]]>1911/17/2008 9:47:37 PM2008-11-17T21:47:37+01:0080967http://www.plime.com/politics/l/80967/1/
It was the first time since 1968 that the village leaned Democratic in an election.]]>224111/4/2008 12:30:56 AM2008-11-04T00:30:56+01:0059538http://www.plime.com/politics/l/59538/1/
Technically Hillary does have more votes, they just have been thrown out. Plus, caucuses don't report numbers, though that would tend to help Obama]]>3444/24/2008 12:51:55 PM2008-04-24T12:51:55+01:0041380http://www.plime.com/politics/l/41380/1/2213511/11/2007 7:49:53 PM2007-11-11T19:49:53+01:0059440http://www.plime.com/politics/l/59440/1/6294/23/2008 1:09:55 PM2008-04-23T13:09:55+01:0075689http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/75689/1/2369/10/2008 3:46:51 PM2008-09-10T15:46:51+01:0081084http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/81084/1/1039411/5/2008 9:17:37 AM2008-11-05T09:17:37+01:0062360http://www.plime.com/politics/l/62360/1/432225/19/2008 12:58:20 PM2008-05-19T12:58:20+01:0057307http://www.plime.com/politics/l/57307/1/How do you explain the fact that Obama seems to be the favourite of the “rest of the world”?

he would represent a new vision of the US, one which is multicultural. At a time in global politics in which globalization and migration are raising concerns about multiethnicity and social cohesion people would see Obama’s election as a sign of progress on that front.]]>323024/7/2008 10:50:13 PM2008-04-07T22:50:13+01:0059739http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59739/1/0734/26/2008 4:43:13 PM2008-04-26T16:43:13+01:0063742http://www.plime.com/politics/l/63742/1/38-285/30/2008 12:39:14 PM2008-05-30T12:39:14+01:0078533http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/78533/1/EMMAUS, Pa. - October 2, 2008 (WPVI) -- It could be the largest kennel raid in Pennsylvania history.
Investigators in Lehigh County have uncovered a gruesome scene in Emmaus - dozens of dead and injured animals, some of which were found in a freezer.
Dozens of animals were brought here to the SPCA in Philadelphia overnight. Dogs, cats and]]>322410/2/2008 11:43:25 AM2008-10-02T11:43:25+01:0059273http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59273/1/6564/22/2008 10:48:07 AM2008-04-22T10:48:07+01:0058021http://www.plime.com/politics/l/58021/1/
Update to this.]]>17524/13/2008 12:39:00 AM2008-04-13T00:39:00+01:0065970http://www.plime.com/politics/l/65970/1/
Such as: Barack Obama wears a FLAG PIN at all times. Even in the shower.

and: There's only one artist on Barack Obama's iPod: FRANCIS SCOTT KEY.]]>42326/19/2008 4:25:11 PM2008-06-19T16:25:11+01:0060215http://www.plime.com/politics/l/60215/1/7234/30/2008 8:10:33 PM2008-04-30T20:10:33+01:0081442http://www.plime.com/politics/l/81442/1/517311/10/2008 1:48:45 AM2008-11-10T01:48:45+01:00