How informed are you?

[Guest]

Test your knowledge with 12 questions, then be ready to shudder when you see how others did.

http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/index.php (http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/index.php)

I got 12 of 12 correct. :beer3:

[Guest]

Very good quiz and atta boy on getting them all correct.
I scored 11 out of 12 .

[Guest]

While pleased at being part of the 2% that went 12-for-12, I was dismayed at how many got 4 or less.

[Guest]

While pleased at being part of the 2% that went 12-for-12, I was dismayed at how many got 4 or less.

It is very scary when one watches on TV and a commentator asks some of these questions to college kids. Probably 75% have No idea who our VP is or would have trouble finding Europe or USA on a map.

[Guest]

12 out of 12, but to be honest I had to make an intelligent guess on one and got it right.
Hard to believe you could get 4 or less right and still be considered a "citizen".

[Guest]

12 out of 12, but to be honest I had to make an intelligent guess on one and got it right.
Hard to believe you could get 4 or less right and still be considered a "citizen".

But they all vote and vote with whomever somebody (mostly the media or party aggressors) tell them to vote for !!! Isnt that a comfy feeling ?

[Guest]

11/12 here.

[Guest]

11/12

Yoda

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12/12 Here as well. I hope people have been playing games to make it look bad. I hate to think that the people of the USA are this dumb.

[Guest]

It doesn't prove anything that I got 12. But the stats make two things I fear almost a certainty: More than 90% of Congressional incumbents will reelected and, (unless she has a tawdry affair with an unattractive person), it will be Palin in 2012.


and usually I'm a really positive person!!

[Guest]

It is very scary when one watches on TV and a commentator asks some of these questions to college kids. Probably 75% have No idea who our VP is or would have trouble finding Europe or USA on a map.

Do you think this is because we have the best educational system in the world, along with the best health care system??? I'm just askin...:laugh:

[Guest]

It won't be Palin in 2012. If she runs, any number of more qualified Republicans will turn her into hamburger in a debate.

This is the woman who was "blindsided" by *Katy Couric*, for crying out loud! If she got that "deer caught in the headlights" look with HER, imagine what a REAL news reporter could do. To this day she STILL can't name a newspaper that she reads.

Most politicians quit their jobs AFTER they announce they're running for President. She quit and has done... What? Ok, she wrote a book. When she quit, she said she wasn't quitting - and this will be replayed like the John Kerry quote "I was against the war before I was for it" over and over and over and over again. She said she was (paraphrasing) "taking the fight to a new level". What fight? The book is all about HER - not the country or anything contemporary. There's certainly nothing WRONG with writing a book about your experiences, but it has NOTHING to do with 'going forward'.

[Guest]

Do you think this is because we have the best educational system in the world, along with the best health care system??? I'm just askin...:laugh:

Of course we don't have the best educational system in the world (but probably the most expensive) and until the cozy relationship between the Democratic Party and the teacher's union is broken up, we likely never will. The biggest impediment to education reform is the teacher's union and its insistence on tenure and no merit pay.

BTW, an interesting part of this study as well as its predecessors is that Republicans tend to be better informed on current events than Democrats.

[Guest]

Of course we don't have the best educational system in the world (but probably the most expensive) and until the cozy relationship between the Democratic Party and the teacher's union is broken up, we likely never will. The biggest impediment to education reform is the teacher's union and its insistence on tenure and no merit pay.

BTW, an interesting part of this study as well as its predecessors is that Republicans tend to be better informed on current events than Democrats.

Hahaha! :a20: The Republicans tend to be better informed than Democrats??? Yes, Repubs are so well "informed" they don't even realize the demographics of this country have changed and half of them are still looking for Obama's birth certificate! Oh, please. Now that's an "elitist" attitude.

And you're blaming the break down of our entire educational system on the Democrats??? Wow! What was the previous Republican's doing about it??? Remember Bush's "No Child Left Behind"??? Ya, that really fizzled! They're still looking for that kid on a milk carton somewhere!

Get real. chilout

[Guest]

Hahaha! :a20: The Republicans tend to be better informed than Democrats??? Yes, Repubs are so well "informed" they don't even realize the demographics of this country have changed and half of them are still looking for Obama's birth certificate! Oh, please. Now that's an "elitist" attitude.

And you're blaming the break down of our entire educational system on the Democrats??? Wow! What was the previous Republican's doing about it??? Remember Bush's "No Child Left Behind"??? Ya, that really fizzled! They're still looking for that kid on a milk carton somewhere!

Get real. chilout

Perhaps if you got off the floor and stopped laughing (and mocking) you would have some time to get some real facts - then you too may be able to become informed. Yes, the data does indeed show Republicans to be better informed than Democrats. And, yes the Republican administration was not content with the status quo as the Dems/teachers union was and actually did do something about it and actually did achieve positive results. But, just to let you know that this is not just a "slam the Dems" post, Arne Duncan has made some promising comments concerning education and he may actually take on some of the golden calves of the teachers' union. Good for him if he succeeds.

[Guest]

Of course we don't have the best educational system in the world (but probably the most expensive) and until the cozy relationship between the Democratic Party and the teacher's union is broken up, we likely never will. The biggest impediment to education reform is the teacher's union and its insistence on tenure and no merit pay.

BTW, an interesting part of this study as well as its predecessors is that Republicans tend to be better informed on current events than Democrats.

I MUST AGREE Many of my closest friends are or were teachers. We get in to many almost heated discussions about the failure of our education system. Almost to a person they are Left wing.
I don't have the solution to our education system but throwing more money to the teachers union IS NOT THE ANSWER.
We had several exchange students from Japan and from Europe and they all said that our schools was not the place for getting any education.

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My suspicion (hope) is it will not be Palin in 2012. Of course I am one of those socially liberral Republicians that the far right is trying to remove from the party, so what do I know.

[Guest]

[QUOTE=Number 6;235419]My suspicion (hope) is it will not be Palin in 2012. Of course I am one of those socially liberral Republicians that the far right is trying to remove from the party, so what do I know.[/

Maybe as a social Liberal you should leave the Republican Party because there really is no place for social Liberals in it.

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Maybe as a social Liberal you should leave the Republican Party because there really is no place for social Liberals in it.


Probably because I am a fiscal conservative, and fiscal issues trump social issues for me. Plus I have heard Sen. Reid and Rep. Pelosi speak. I am more like a Rudy Republician, unless you think that is a contridiction in terms.

[Guest]

If the social, Liberal's (if there is such a thing???) leave the Republican party -- there will be NO Republican party. Believe me, the Sarah Palan, Glen Beck followers are a loud, but small group.

[Guest]

If the social, Liberal's (if there is such a thing???) leave the Republican party -- there will be NO Republican party. Believe me, the Sarah Palan, Glen Beck followers are a loud, but small group.

It makes no difference. If things keep going the way they are, a hamburger with onion could beat Obama in 2012.

Yoda

[Guest]

If the social, Liberal's (if there is such a thing???) leave the Republican party -- there will be NO Republican party. Believe me, the Sarah Palan, Glen Beck followers are a loud, but small group.

I assure you that there are Libertarians who vote GOP because of the importance we place on fiscal issues. Dennis Miller is really a Libertarian, for instance, as is (almost) Rudy Guliani. William F. Buckley was. Robert Novak is.

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I think the last time I held a lot of hope for the GOP was when it was rumored that former Massachusetts governor William Weld was being groomed for a run at the White House.

He managed to be a fiscal conservative, socially middle-left governor who got re-elected in Massachusetts and managed to actually work WITH an overwhelmingly Democrat legislature. More conservative standard-bearers in the GOP were said to have hated him and, hence, the party couldn't get behind him.