Poll: 90% Of Voters Say Midterm Elections Had Misleading Information

[Donnachaidh]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/poll-90-of-voters-say-election-had-misleading-information.php


A new poll finds that 90% of voters say they encountered information in the 2010 election cycle that was "misleading or false," and 56% say this happened frequently.

The University of Maryland put out a survey that showed "strong evidence that voters were substantially misinformed on many of the key issues of the campaign. Such misinformation was correlated with how people voted and their exposure to various news sources."

Among that misinformation was that:


# Though the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) concluded that the stimulus legislation has saved or created 2.0-5.2 million jobs, only 8% of voters thought most economists who had studied it concluded that the stimulus legislation had created or saved several million jobs. Most (68%) believed that economists estimate that it only created or saved a few jobs and 20% even believed that it resulted in job losses.
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Though the CBO concluded that the health reform law would reduce the budget deficit, 53% of voters thought most economists have concluded that health reform will increase the deficit.
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Though the Department of Commerce says that the US economy began to recover from recession in the third quarter of 2009 and has continued to grow since then, only 44% of voters thought the economy is starting to recover, while 55% thought the economy is still getting worse.
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More at the link --

[WCGreen]

1. Morons....

[sharp_stick]

2. I'm not surprised

with the SC decision giving corporations personhood this is to be expected.

The thing that really pisses me off though is how many people in this country are nice and happy believing all the crap they're fed. I hate political advertising with a passion, all of it. It drives me up the wall and by September of an election year I'm ready to chuck a brick at the TV when I hear "I'm so and so and I approve this message".

The last one on your list about the economic recovery probably isn't that accurate. The economy may be recovering in a macro sense but in a personal sense it sure wasn't at the time of the election. Personal description of the economy is rarely tied to the macro scale but to what they experience on a daily basis.

[Ozymanithrax]

3. There are no do overs for the willfully ignorant...or the informed.

Often we get just one chance
Screw it up, then you suck it up.

Being informed is just too difficult
Better to trust some spinning ass
And vote for their best interests.

[BeFree]

4. The press has failed us

The M$M is an utter failure. Nearly ever media employee should be sent to reeducation camps.

The lies the press spews on a daily basis shows utter contempt for America.

[LynneSin]

5. You're kidding me - it was misleading???!!

:eyes:
:sarcasm:

Thank you 90% of you who couldn't bother to READ about the facts and vote for someone capable to handle the job.

[rucky]

6. This is no accident. n/t

[rhett o rick]

7. Until we can get our message out, we are lost. We have to get a media source. nm

[frazzled]

10. A media source that doesn't spend all its time ...

ridiculing Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, and Sarah Palin. Or tilting at windmills. Or attacking our own party. That is just a waste of time.

We need a media source that actually deals with policy issues and facts and figures in a calm, rational--even nonpartisan-- way.

[rhett o rick]

12. I want Sen Sanders on national television. nm

[Rex]

8. I am surprised the average voter knows what the CBO is.

Controllers Bigboy Orangutan?

[HopeHoops]

9. Nice of them to notice NOW! Fuck me sideways in a Yugo.

What the HELL is wrong with this country?

[gratuitous]

11. Surprised it wasn't 100%

How inattentive do you have to be not to realize that when two directly contradictory statements are presented, that at least one of them is wrong? The trick, of course, is recognizing what's wrong, what's right, and making a decision from an informed basis. If you really and truly believed that health care reform was going to increase the deficit, you cast your ballot without even realizing you had been lied to.

[old mark]

13. The Democrats have just not done enough to ADVERTISE the good they have done

whereas the GOP is never reluctant to lie their asses off in order to win. Evidently the Democrats feel morally superior - while losing consistantly.

mark

[rhett o rick]

14. The Democrats have to learn how to use the corporate media. nm