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[hendrix_child]

How media bias failed our voters. 
  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)
71.8% could NOT correctly say Joe

Comments

[modest_john]

And this is worse than blatantly stealing an election?

[hendrix_child]

You make it sound like I support Republicans/Bush/McCain.

My point was simply to show the bias in media. Agreed, I did protest against Obama, but I also protested McCain in the primaries.

I just wanted to show the how the media plays favorites. Hell, we can criticize Palin for things she didn't say (Africa not being a continent, not knowing the countries in NAFTA, SNL, etc.) but barely anyone has seen the clip of Obama saying "We've campaigned in 57 states, and I believe we just have one more to go." Palin's spending was investigated for months, but everyone brushed off fact Obama launched his campaign out of the basement of domestic terrorists. Or sat in Wright's church for 20 years, claiming him as best friend, counsel, and family.

I'm just looking for a little truth & fairness in media, and there's not one station out there that does it. That, and encourage people to do non-biased research on their own.

[modest_john]

Yeah, I dig.
I still don't know why you still have such a bug up your butt about all this, or why you place so much importance on a poll of only 512 people out of the nearly 67 million that voted for him.

Dem muthafuckas ain't reprazent alla us holmes.

[hendrix_child]

Agreed not all Obama supporters are political idiots. Or idiots period. But, that's what surveys are for; a microscale glance at percentages. Our media failed us. Knowing before the primaries were over that I was voting Ron Paul or third party, I'll say from an outside perspective that the media had a very clear bias. Things like Sara Palin's wardrobe, possible abuse of spending in office, McCain's inability to use a computer, or his personal wealth took waaaay more attention and questioning than Obama's voting record, associations with Rezko, Wright, and Ayers, flip-flops, or his verbal blunders.

[skyline3092]

These are gonna be a long, hard four years, Kevin.

I've put some thought into moving to Ireland, spending my days drunk, opening up a practice, and on weekends, playing in a band at a bar.

You in?

[hendrix_child]

Ha I already had someone at B&N try and tell me "It's not coincidence the 2012 Apocalypse is at the end of Obama's term in office!"

Ireland sounds fantastic.

[skyline3092]

I thought the 2012 Apocalypse was only existent if you believed in the Mayan calendar...

Hmm...

Just goes to show that there are, indeed, idiots on both sides of the fence.

Did Jon tell you about the Genesee GOP meeting? After I got seated as a delegate from my precinct, I turned to him and said "Cool. When do I get my Darth Vader helmet?" Also this was the primary policy for the Genesee GOP:

"I go to church.
I hate the gays.
I go to church to hate the gays."

And when they did the invocation, I just kinda looked around, scratched my head, I think I may have drawn a picture, and at the end, said "Woot Woot."