So, when the blue guys lose a close election, they claim the results were rigged. When the red guys lose a close election, they say that those who voted for the other guy shouldn't have been allowed to vote in the first place?

Why not, instead of taking away people's right to vote, have people vote for representatives who vote for them in an election, "electors", if you will? Obviously not the same representatives, they use for everything else, just somebody they trust as being keen on the issues. We could call it "the electoral college"...

I can't get this video on any site, What the Hell? Did the "truth squads" get it?

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
-Winston Churchill

Just thought that was relevant.

Keep watching and see if Obama is no more than an obedient mouthpiece for the liberal left. It will be so easy with media help for the more experienced democrats to bail on him and let him take the blame if something goes south. I am not so sure how solid Obama will remain when being badgered about by his own party and others. He seems to me to be a rather charismatic lead for a power hungry left who still and probably will always see themselves as occupying the moral highground.. In short...a mouthpiece ruled by committee. Watch as this unfolds and see if the left wing Nirvana unfolds the way some would have us believe or if this is nothing more than a typical 60's contact high.

Recently, a boy was run over by a train because he was wearing his Ipod and never heard the train coming when it hit him. I sometimes wonder if America will have that last fleeting milisecond when they realize just how stupid they were when that symbolic freight train creams them.

Frightening to see and hear a small but apparently accurate representation of our voters. Unbelievable the stupidity that was displayed and it is just shameful that these people plus others did not do their homework prior to voting. To rely on media for any information that is truthful is like walking on air and planning on it supporting your weight!

First of all some of you obviously did not read the poll results and just watched the video. This was about media impact and he classified the respondents in his poll with actual data about race, gender and political party, there are Republicans included in the poll. Look at some of the second place responses, some people that got it wrong their choice not the majority wrong choice was even worse in some cases.

I just read where demographics are now starting to come out on who voted. Here in Ohio where Obama won the 20 Electoral votes it was by 207,000. According to the AP something like 534000 white people less then 2004 did not bother to show up.

Now what does that say about media impact, if even the 54% or so of them voted McCain based on total white votes in Ohio McCain wins or at least has a chance. So what about the Media picking Obama before the election? Sounds like Kerry and Gore complaints and analysis.

The truth is the Democrats and their money and influence with the media won this election, not issues and certainly not policies or facts.

Frank, you're an idiot. You're just upset because the average person that voted for Obama is an uneducated socialist that votes based on emotions.

I say Starship Troopers had it right. Only those that have HONORABLY served in our armed services (or peace corps) should be allowed to vote. Only they should be "citizens." All others would simply be wards of the state.

A friend of mine made the mistake of telling me they voted for Obama strictly (they didn't even know what he stood for) so they could tell their grandkids they helped the black man make history.

I asked them if they wanted a prize.

Why don't you folks just simply get over the fact that Obama won the election. It's over, get over it and get a life. This was meant to be--8 years of running country down a ditch was enough.

"We know Palin never said Africa is a country. Those lies (and many others) had absolutely no basis in fact"

So... Fox News is now part of the massive Mainstream Liberal Media Conspiracy™? Because they're the ones that reported that.

I would just like to remind everyone that if you believe Obama won because the majority of American voters believed a pack of utter and complete lies and falsehoods, you can no longer claim any legitimacy to any US election. You are saying that the American voting public are too stupid to do any sort of research or incapable of voting based on careful consideration of the issues, which makes any candidate they vote for illegitimate, not just Obama. The US elections become a contest of which side can sling the most mud and put out the most lies, and not a decision based on issues.

Oh, wait.

Obama's campaign staff, through the progressive/liberal blogs, carpetbombed us day in and day out with so many lies that it would take months to refute them all. The idea was to tie up the McCain-Palin staff by making them refute the ridiculous assertions and to throw them off balance and put them on the defensive.

Now that the dust has settled, we know that Palin never said she could see Russia from her house. We know Palin never said Africa is a country. Those lies (and many others) had absolutely no basis in fact yet the prog/libs ate it up at the time because they tended to fit the prog/lib prevarications that Palin is an idiot and that John McCain had poor judgment in selecting her as a running mate.

It was a winning strategy in this case.

The answers to the Zogby poll questions who were mainly directed at college students, and Black voters from various adult age groups didn't surprize me. You could see and hear how young college students are so brain-washed by the liberal prof's in our colleges and universities. Stemming from the video, I could call the Black voters who voted for Obama racists because of thier lack of knowlege who the DNC Congressional leaders are, and also how obvious thier voting for Obama came down to his skin color. So much for Pelosi breaking the glass cieling. But were my Irish-Catholic parents who voted for the Kennedy's in New York and Washington be racists too? Well, Bobby was a great Senator and Secretary of State who helped prevent a third World War. JFK like McCain, was a War hero, Patriot, hated Communism, and while he didn't associate himself with subversive anti-American activists like Obama did, he stood for justice, and sided with Martin Luther King, and the Civil Rights movement. Judging from the responses to where Obama voters get thier news from, it's obvious that the Obama News Network CNN,PBS,CBS,NBC, and ABC have all done a great job of brain- washing voters with disinformation. I found it even more interesting what these Obama voters came away with watching the main stream left wing media we have in this country. The main stream American media has obviously focused on Bush-Bashing, and charactor assasinations on John McCain and Sarah Palin instead of thier records, and what they stand for. The answers to the Zogby questions in the video illistrate how the left leaning media succeeded in focusing on form instead of substance. There by creating a bunch of Obama Zombies or voters who don't really understand where Obama's ideology comes from or what he stands for. Oh thats right, He stands for change! The media also ironicly made the Obama Zombies think that McCain is four more years of Bush. With the exception of the military and forgien policy, McCain is a centerist moderate who has over 30 years of experience reaching across the isle to work hand in hand with the Democrats. So after close to Billion dollars the Obama campagn recieved from we still don't know who?, coupled with our left wing biased American media, and how could Obama lose? Being a native New Yorker, I could easily see how I could shoot some hoops or sit down and have a beer with Barak Obama. he doesn't seem like a bad guy, but I think that questions need to be asked about who he was hanging out with, and how the heck did America's post-secondary institutions of higher learning along with such a sophysiticated American media create these Obama Zombies. Perhaps the U.S. Military and CIA could use the same brain-washing techniques on the Taliban and Al Queda. Think of the lives, and money we could save on both war fronts.

I would guarantee you that Sarah Palin could not have passed the test either.

One of the irritating realities of modern politics is that in order to criticize your opponent's position on some issue you must first find a way to express that position as a soundbite that you can attack. Obama's opinions tend to fall in two categories: short, pithy, vacuous soundbites that cannot be attacked on substance because they have none; and longer, nuanced, complex arguments that contain such a contradictory maze of bad ideas that they cannot be expressed as a soundbite without giving Obama the perfectly-fair opportunity to claim that the soundbite is nothing he ever said. The "bankrupt the coal industry" meme falls into the second category.

While he did say that his energy policies would make the cost of energy go up, he didn't -- exactly -- say that he would bankrupt the coal industry. He was describing his carbon trading ideas to an environmentally-inclined audience and he said that a power company would go bankrupt trying to build a *new* coal-fired plant. The idea is to make it prohibitively expensive for the coal industry to grow -- not necessarily to attack its existing business. The long term effect on the coal industry would be very, very bad -- most innovation comes with growth and a static industry gets left behind -- but, technically, Obama never said he would "bankrupt the coal industry."

Do you seriously think the average Joe Redneck from Nowhere, Kansas, and his ilk, would be any better informed? Please!

That being said, the ignorance of the people who voted for Obama is quite a bit dismaying.

There's millions upon millions of Americans who are extremely ignorant to how the government works and basic economics.

One of my co-workers is a woman in her mid 30's who honestly believed Obama was born and raised in the middle east. She knew nothing about McCain at all, but she voted for him simply because she thought Obama was Arabic.

I also have co-workers who couldn't you the difference between the Congress and the Senate, they didn't even know our state's Senators, yet, they "knew" Obama was the greatest thing ever.

I don't think big business is evil, but big business does like using marketing to convience people that a cheap slogan equals a worthy product. Just something to keep in mind when you wonder how so many people went for Obama over a few catchy slogans.

The questions in the Zeigler Poll were questions regarding scandals presented on both sides of the media. Zeigler has revealed the shocking notion that liberal voters pay attention to liberal media sources. I have the suspicion (since Zeigler didn't have enough journalistic integrity to take a random population sample as he should have) that one would find that conservative voters have a tendency to listen to conservative media sources and would have similarly-skewed results.

Had the poll included any important factors of election, such as policy variances between the two candidates, it might carry some weight. It only addresses pop-culture values/morals issues, which should not be the sole basis of election.

Ignorance pervades America, and it is despicable whenever ignorant people weigh in on big decisions for the country. There are ignorant people who voted for Obama, as this video makes clear. There are also ignorant people who voted for McCain, as these videos make clear:

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/mccainpalin-supporters-let-their-rac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fbpZXivv-M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKUovpF9LWU

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/238074.php

http://www.lasvegassun.com/videos/2008/oct/22/983/

http://www.youtube.com/morrillmajority

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar71V0MS1jg

So let's be clear. Obama won because he created a coalition of all kinds of people: smart, dumb, black, white, well-informed, uninformed, Democrat, Republican. More people checked the box next to his name than McCain. Had McCain won, it would have been due, at least in part, to having won the votes of ignorant, white racists who weren't voting for McCain based on their knowledge of the issues, but on their antipathy towards Obama. At least the ignorant Obama supporters don't hate anyone.

We'll see if Neal is just as outraged about these videos as he is about the one of ignorant Obama supporters. My guess: Nah.

Experiencing this election via radio, television, print media, and internet has convinced me that most voters are just plain stupid, and most media takes advantage of that very fact. I remember watching some video interviews on the internet a few months back, I think on Youtube, where Obamaites were professing their belief in him but when asked why, all they could say was "change." Hey didn't Grandma always say, "Sometimes you get what you ask (vote) for..."

Wow, America, the World Crys for US! How stupid some Americans are. They should not VOTE!

The callers who say there is no relevance in the video are insane. If you are going to vote for something as important as the president then you should be informed enough to know at least leaders of the house, senate, and what political party is in control of both. Im all for a qualifying test to see if you are informed enough at the beginning of every ballot you attempt to cast. Those uniformed people who just listen to the elite media should not be able to vote unless they can show some sort of intelligence in politics.

...and you will find that the same questions were asked of ~500 Obama voters over the phone, after the election. Zogby conducts polling in accordance with established sampling practices--it's their business, and they would not be served by doing a poor job selecting and interviewing their sample set. So, if you think this was just finding "the 12 dumbest Obama voters"...you'd be wrong.

My daughter dismissed my encouragement to get civics homework done by saying "It's just civics." I showed her the video and said "That's why civics is important!" Thanks Mr. Ziegler!

As Neal pointed out, finding the twelve stupidest people who disagree with you and interviewing them is proof of nothing.

I'm fiercely independent so what I find disturbing is that so many Republicans believe that this poll is proof of anything. The questions were specifically designed to create false data.

What's sad is that it would be very easy to do a legitimate poll and find that Obama had more support from casual voters. It would be pretty easy to prove media bias toward the left while using legitimate polling practices. Instead, they went for obvious ignorance and of course the far right eats it up. Stupidity all around.

Ingnorance must truly be bliss. I will enjoy watching these people suffer for their "god" when his pantheon leads their employers to the wonderful world of "offshore employementville" and "Eurodollaria". I guess the more they bleed, the better seat they'll get in heaven next to the union bosses and the environmental concensus.

This is indeed scary but hardly a surprise. My guess is that 80% of the voters are uninformed. While these people in that clip may be indicative of alot of Obama supporters, this project would hold more water if an equal amount of McCain supporters were polled with questions about their candidate. I'd be interested on how that would pan out. (I voted for Bob Barr, BTW)

My daughter dismissed my encouragement to get civics homework done by saying "It's just civics." I showed her the video and said "That's why civics is important!" Thanks Mr. Ziegler!

The Obama voters I saw in the interview did not know Nancy Pelosi,Harry Reid, or Barney Frank. They also thought Republicans controlled congress. This shows the power media and advertising has in brainwashing uninformed people.

I read the total report and watched the video. I find it disturbing that many people have selective knowledge on certain subjects when it comes to Democrats but the minute anything is mentioned about Republicans they are all over it.