{"id":1103,"date":"2008-11-18T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2008-11-18T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T17:28:00","slug":"how-obama-got-elected-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1103","title":{"rendered":"How Obama Got Elected (.com)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howobamagotelected.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">This web site<\/a> hosts a poll of Obama voters who were asked questions about the US government and the presidential candidates in particular.&#160; The level of non- or mis-information is truly amazing.&#160; There is an accompanying video of 12 of those respondents showing how little they knew about Obama or Biden, but how much they <em>did<\/em> know about negative reports on Sarah Palin (or mistook what Tina Fey said as a Palin quote).&#160; <\/p>\n<p>While the general lack of knowledge about who Barney Frank is, or who controls the US Congress, may indeed cross political boundaries, what I found interesting is that, of the Obama voters asked, 86% did know that the RNC paid $150,000 for Sarah Palin&#8217;s clothes, 93.8% knew she had a pregnant teenage daughter, but only 43.9% knew in who&#8217;s home Obama kicked off his political career.&#160; Only 1 of the 12 highlighted in the video even knew the name Bill Ayers.&#160; And yet we were told that the public had heard the Ayers\/Weather Underground connection and, based on the continued Obama advantage in the polls, must have considered it uninteresting.<\/p>\n<p>Well perhaps they never heard the information in the first place.&#160; Watch the video and find out where these folks gets their news, and that&#8217;ll go a long way to answering that question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This web site hosts a poll of Obama voters who were asked questions about the US government and the presidential candidates in particular.&#160; The level of non- or mis-information is truly amazing.&#160; There is an accompanying video of 12 of those respondents showing how little they knew about Obama or Biden, but how much they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,18,22,26,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-doug","category-government","category-media","category-politics","category-polls"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}