04/16/2007 07:10:26 PM EST

The Uninformed American public...

posted by MedfordTim

A new poll I found disheartening, to say the least - although I can't say there was any surprise.


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excerpts from the above link:

"For example, only 69% know that Dick Cheney is vice president, while 74% could identify Dan Quayle in that post in 1989."

Who.....the... %#$& are the 31% who DON'T know who Cheney is? And why the hell are they allowed to use sophisticated machinery like telephones?? Let's assume that 1/3 of our population is not of age to vote (for example purposes - don't get hung up on the figure, okay?) that leaves 200 million who are. Of that 200 million, 62 MILLION don't know who the freakin' V.P. is?? How could anyone be THAT oblivious?

"Told that Shia was one group of Muslims struggling in Iraq, only 32% of the total sample could name "Sunni" as the other key group. "

...and Bush was NOT one of the 32% who knew...

68% of our population, after 4 years of combat in Iraq, have not the slightest clue of the basics. No wonder President Custer got reelected! This is INSANE! How can we be so utterly, defiantly, completely ignorant as a nation?

%#$& me! Where did I put that Clonazepam...I need to take a looooong nap...
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So 30% don't know who Cheney is. That means 90 million people out of 300 million don't know. How many people are under 18? How many people are handicapped. How many people are foreign nationals on Visas they will soon be overstaying, How manby are illegal immigrants (a lot), how many people are senile or have alzheimers.

That number doesn't surprise me.

by acroso on 04/16/2007 09:31:52 PM EST

Oh God. (none / 0)
You know absolutely nothing about polling.

Please stop talking before you embarrass yourself any further.

by jarett on 04/17/2007 01:03:26 AM EST

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Jarret, YOU don't know when to stop!! (none / 0)
You told acrosa:

"You know absolutely nothing about polling.
Please stop talking before you embarrass yourself any further."

You should be ashamed! Wasting all those pixelated space fillers! Liberals can be "conservative" too, y'know!

Next time, please keep this in mind. In the carefully thought out reply to acrosa, you needn't go farther than: "You know absolutely nothing."

nowhudimeen?

by MedfordTim on 04/17/2007 02:10:55 AM EST

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It's the alarm clock (none / 0)
I keep telling you guys that Acroso has an alarm clock set to randomly go off and every time it does, like a pigeon in a skinner box that is conditioned to peck, Acroso is conditioned to post.

Sometimes it almost makes sense, and on even rarer occasions it has something to do with the thread he's posting in.

Of course he also has a list of key words, one of which must appear in each and every post. The above post for example contains illegal immigrants, other buzz words are leftist, surrender, islamofacist, well you get the idea.

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative." John Stuart Mill

by Hubble on 04/17/2007 01:13:52 PM EST

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