Official - Elected Americans are on average more ignorant than their electorate.

[MikeH]

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2008/additional_finding.html

[Guynemer]

In each of the following areas, for example, officeholders do more poorly than non-officeholders:

Seventy-nine percent of those who have been elected to government office do not know the Bill of Rights expressly prohibits establishing an official religion for the U.S.
Thirty percent do not know that “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are the inalienable rights referred to in the Declaration of Independence.
Twenty-seven percent cannot name even one right or freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment.
Forty-three percent do not know what the Electoral College does. One in five thinks it either “trains those aspiring for higher political office” or “was established to supervise the first televised presidential debates.”
Fifty-four percent do not know the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war. Thirty-nine percent think that power belongs to the president, and 10% think it belongs to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Only 32% can properly define the free enterprise system, and only 41% can identify business profit as “revenue minus expenses.”

I hate this ****ing country.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

I reflect back to my days in college and realize that all the polisci majors really were as stupid as they seemed.

[dannubis]

Do they have these results split up by political party ? Would be interesting to see those results.

And yes, politicians are dumb short sighted ****ers out for your tax $$$.

[Ben Kenobi]

Do they have these results split up by political party ? Would be interesting to see those results.

I'd wager that the fact that they don't report this is evidence that the democrats are more likley to be ill-informed.

[Guynemer]

[dannubis]

Hey site idiot. I have you on ignore. I have no idea what type of drivel you are spewing but I just wanted to let you know you are wasting effort here.

EDIT: Not our most esteemed resident pediatrician of course.

[Ben Kenobi]

Hey site idiot. I have you on ignore. I have no idea what type of drivel you are spewing but I just wanted to let you know you are wasting effort here.

I said that there's no reason for the american civil liberty folks to conceal republican ignorance.

[MrFun]

Seventy-nine percent of those who have been elected to government office do not know the Bill of Rights expressly prohibits establishing an official religion for the U.S.

wow

[giblets]

I wonder if Ben just responded to someone who explicitly said he's ignoring Ben's posts?

[Lorizael]

I said that there's no reason for the american civil liberty folks to conceal republican ignorance.

American Civic Literacy. Christ, you're illiterate. And it's sponsored by this group. How liberal do they sound?

[Ben Kenobi]

American Civic Literacy. Christ, you're illiterate. And it's sponsored by this group. How liberal do they sound?

They even believe that liberal education currently isn't liberal enough. For shame, Lori.

[Tupac Shakur]

This study doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

[self biased]

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org...l_finding.html

[snoopy369]

They even believe that liberal education currently isn't liberal enough. For shame, Lori.

Please tell me you're joking. Liberal #1 = democrat sense. Liberal #2 = traditional sense.

Their first president was William F Buckley, Jr., the noted liberal scholar ...