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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+01:0057307http://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+01:0059438http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/59438/1/11514/23/2008 12:28:11 PM2008-04-23T12:28:11+01:0080652http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/80652/1/link fixed]]>1128810/30/2008 4:51:21 PM2008-10-30T16:51:21+01:0046784http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/46784/1/We're going for a beer.
Beer, beer, beer.
I like drinking beer.
Lovely, lovely beer.

A Rob Manuel, Daniele Davoli and Joel Veitch collaboration.]]>52301/10/2008 8:34:34 PM2008-01-10T20:34:34+01:0060215http://www.plime.com/politics/l/60215/1/7234/30/2008 8:10:33 PM2008-04-30T20:10:33+01:0075689http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/75689/1/2369/10/2008 3:46:51 PM2008-09-10T15:46:51+01:0036773http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/36773/1/
Allegedly, 768 possible tickets.]]>41159/26/2007 10:01:56 AM2007-09-26T10:01:56+01:0051491http://www.plime.com/politics/l/51491/1/21972/20/2008 9:44:42 PM2008-02-20T21:44:42+01:0050077http://www.plime.com/politics/l/50077/1/11242/10/2008 8:39:48 PM2008-02-10T20:39:48+01:0054022http://www.plime.com/politics/l/54022/1/
Hilary Clinton has declined to comment so far.]]>142703/12/2008 6:12:51 PM2008-03-12T18:12:51+01:0077219http://www.plime.com/politics/l/77219/1/192389/22/2008 7:03:40 PM2008-09-22T19:03:40+01:0079962http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79962/1/76210/21/2008 8:27:37 PM2008-10-21T20:27:37+01:0018729http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18729/1/0565/2/2007 7:21:12 AM2007-05-02T07:21:12+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+01:0037119http://www.plime.com/politics/l/37119/1/1821110/2/2007 1:53:02 PM2007-10-02T13:53:02+01:0082101http://www.plime.com/politics/l/82101/1/
Should he pick the right person for the job? Or the right gender?]]>197311/17/2008 5:11:51 PM2008-11-17T17:11:51+01:0041380http://www.plime.com/politics/l/41380/1/2213511/11/2007 7:49:53 PM2007-11-11T19:49:53+01:0055186http://www.plime.com/politics/l/55186/1/
**And suddenly, this story gets much less interesting. One candidate getting singled out, is a story. One political party getting singled out, is a story. All candidates getting "violated," fades away.]]>2193/21/2008 2:21:02 PM2008-03-21T14:21:02+01:0056874http://www.plime.com/politics/l/56874/1/42394/3/2008 1:25:17 PM2008-04-03T13:25:17+01:00