Can you answer these 3 political questions correctly? Only 18% of Americans could

[Liberal_in_LA]

The survey, conducted between April 30 and June 1 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, measured the political knowledge of 3,612 U.S. adults.
Participants were asked to

(1)name the controlling party of the U.S. House of Representatives,
(2)the U.S. secretary of state and
(3)Great Britain's prime minister.


Answers here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081015/sc_livescience/americansflunksimple3questionpoliticalsurvey

18% answered all 3 correctly. 50% answered #1 correctly, 42% answered #2 correctly, 30% answered #3 correctly.

[AspenRose]

1. Well DUH, we're political junkies

and the cream of the crop of political junkies, I might add :-)

[madmax]

4. ...

:rofl: When I talk amongst friends that aren't 'into' politics as much as I am they question my sanity. :rofl:

[AspenRose]

6. I know for a fact my husband is very worried about my mental hygiene.

The rest of my family shrugs it off...they've come to expect it :rofl:

[IsItJustMe]

2. Got me on British PM. I was thinking Blair.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. I knew it wasn't Blair anymore but couldn't quickly think of the new guy's name.

[Wheezy]

5. I couldn't remember GB PM's first name, but I got the last name

and made a judgment call that I could count it as all three right. I'm bossy like that.

[dipsydoodle]

11. Being english

gave me a slight edge there. :rofl:

[defendandprotect]

7. Kind of humorous, really --

I must have blocked out Condi from existence --

and couldn'remember who succeeded Blair ... tho I once knew---!!!

Amazing---!!

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. Weird how Condoleeze rice seems to have faded from memory...there was a time

when the blogosphere talked about her constantly.

[defendandprotect]

13. ..btw, anyone hear news on Cheney's condition...????

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. he must be ok...we would have heard something

[petronius]

8. The results-by-audience numbers on that link are interesting

I notice that the NPR listeners had an above-average international awareness, while the Hannity/Rush listeners are hyper-aware of who controls congress. I guess the wingers don't really know or care about issues, they just want to rant and rave about what the other party is doing...

[hfojvt]

25. the interesting thing is the distribution

24% of even National Enquirer readers got the toughest question and yet that's more than the number who got all three right. Which means that some people got that answer and yet still missed one of the other two. Even though much higher percentages got the other two.

I wonder how many would have gotten all three if Tony Blair was still PM.

[Turbineguy]

9. Looks like

RW radio and TV are prepping their dolts better than before.

OK, now for the hard ones:

Where are the WMD's?

Why is ObL still at large?

What happened to the flowers?

How come the Iraq War is costing slightly more than the $1 billion projected?

Extra credit: Who is Phil Gramm? Hint: if you lost your home recently, you should know this.

[SmileyRose]

12. LOL - They counted Jon Stewart, Letterman and Leno as "NEWS" LOL

Tells you how low news is nowadays.




edit because I think faster than I type.

[Balbus]

21. You LOL, but a lot of people on this board live and die by what Jon Stewart says...

[SmileyRose]

22. It's a tradition

In my lifetime at least, comedians always push farther than "real" newspeople push. Even so, I don't know of anyone with half a brain that thinks of Leno, Letterman or Stewart as NEWS JOURNALISTS. They are comedians who on occasion inform - but if taking what is said completely out of context and twisting it gets a laugh and ratings then they'll do it in a heartbeat. Their job is the laugh, whatever that takes.

When Yahoo News gets that difference confused we have a problem.

[OneBlueSky]

14. so . . . you gonna tell us the answers, or what? . . .

:sarcasm:

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. lol...

[cliffordu]

17. Is Great Britain near England??

[pansypoo53219]

18. i did have to think about condi.

i'd rather NOT think of her.

[treestar]

19. I got all three

I bet it's Brown that flummoxes most of them. They don't care about anything outside the US

[Liberal_in_LA]

24. He's not all up in Bush's ass like Blair was so I don't hear his name as much.

[Balbus]

20. Number 1 is a trick question.

Because nobody control's shit in the House.

[Stinky The Clown]

23. If the best you can muster is two out of three .... stay in the Lounge for a while longer, okay?

:rofl: