Wow. Kind of Alarming

Caught this video over at Powerline.

It's amazing to me how these people just automatically ascribe everything "bad" with the GOP brand, and anything "good" with Obama. Two more things that I thought were interesting about this video - nobody really seemed to recognize automatically that there aren't 50 states. It's almost like they were like...57??? Yeah, so? And then everyone was for redistribution, but they don't even know why. People, can we please emphasize history and economics a little bit more just for our own edification? These are, or should be at least, elementary principles but none of these people seemed to grasp them. We can probably assume this is a biased sample of people, but even still...disturbing.

Another interesting note, but did you know the youth vote only accounted for 1% more than they did back in 2000 and 2004? I don't remember where I saw that, probably in a Michael Barone piece somewhere, but I thought that was interesting.

For the record...I didn't know who Barney Frank was either.

Why did you put those in quotes? Are you trying to insinuate that we're not actually here? Like we don't exist? That's for Dave.

UPDATE: I just visited that website, How Obama Got Elected, and the Zogby poll is really interesting. Among the results I found most interesting:

• 81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)
• 82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)
• And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her "house," even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!

To be fair, those results only just barely fall outside of the range of occuring by chance alone, but they are still statistically significant. The numbers themselves appear more significant than what they actually represent, if that makes any sense. Also, in fairness to those people, that question about who said he/she could see Russia from his/her house is misleading. The question itself necessarily implies that the answer is among those four candidates. It's the same kind of problem with picking a criminal out of a line-up - studies show that almost 100% of the time people will choose someone from among those standing there, but fail to even consider that the real criminal might not even be among those that are lined up. It's a poor question, and a poor way of identifying a criminal.