Excerpted from Zogby Poll, “How Obama Got Elected”, Nov. 19, 2008
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The Survey
The sample: 512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08
97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates
12 simple Multiple Choice Questions
Margin of Error MOE +/- 4.4 points
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Most Damning: 57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)
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Talk about being well-informed
88.4% denied that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)
82.6% denied that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)
71.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)
56.1% denied that Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).
But…..
83.6%% identified Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes
86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her “house,” even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!
94.8% identified Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter
http://www.howobamagotelected.com/
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Zogby’s Reply to Criticism of the Survey
“We stand by the results our survey work on behalf of John Ziegler, as we stand by all of our work. We reject the notion that this was a push poll because it very simply wasn’t. It was a legitimate effort to test the knowledge of voters who cast ballots for Barack Obama in the Nov. 4 election. Push polls are a malicious effort to sway public opinion one way or the other, while message and knowledge testing is quite another effort of public opinion research that is legitimate inquiry and has value in the public square. In this case, the respondents were given a full range of responses and were not pressured or influenced to respond in one way or another. This poll was not designed to hurt anyone, which is obvious as it was conducted after the election. The client is free to draw his own conclusions about the research, as are bloggers and other members of society. But Zogby International is a neutral party in this matter. We were hired to test public opinion on a particular subject and with no ax to grind, that’s exactly what we did. We don’t have to agree or disagree with the questions, we simply ask them and provide the client with a fair and accurate set of data reflecting public opinion.” – John Zogby
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1642
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