{"id":3671,"date":"2008-11-20T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2008-11-19T19:39:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T00:39:27","slug":"we-be-dumb-but-we-be-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3671","title":{"rendered":"We Be Dumb, But We Be Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the saying goes &#8220;the people they&#8217;ve been waiting for&#8221; may not be the brightest bulbs on the tree.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zogby.com\/news\/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1642\">Zogby<\/a> poll: they can&#8217;t even <em>find<\/em> the tree.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>83% failed to correctly answer that Obama had won his first election by getting all of his opponents removed from the ballot, and 88% did not correctly associate Obama with his statement that his energy policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry. Most (56%) were also not able to correctly answer that Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Nearly three quarters (72%) of Obama voters did not correctly identify Biden as the candidate who had to quit a previous campaign for President because he was found to have plagiarized a speech, and nearly half (47%) did not know that Biden was the one who predicted Obama would be tested by a generated international crisis during his first six months as President.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>57% of Obama voters were unable to correctly answer that Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The test was <strong>multiple choice<\/strong>. This goes a long way to explaining how BHO garnered such momentum in the race for the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the saying goes &#8220;the people they&#8217;ve been waiting for&#8221; may not be the brightest bulbs on the tree. A recent Zogby poll: they can&#8217;t even find the tree. 83% failed to correctly answer that Obama had won his first election by getting all of his opponents removed from the ballot, and 88% did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}