The Gub'mint We Deserve, Redux

Remember that lil “We Get The Gub'mint We Deserve...” vid I posted a couple of weeks ago? The one where Obama voters fell flat on their face when it came to basic civics knowledge? A common thought in comments to that post was something to the effect that McCain voters probably wouldn’t do much better. Well… The guy that produced that Obama-voter video has commissioned a similar study/poll of McCain voters, and the McCain folks really did do did BETTER than the O-voters. For what that’s worth.

There’s lots of detail here, including a short (five minute) video that I attempted to embed here at EIP but that Blogger won’t accept, for whatever reason (altogether now: frickin’ Blogger!). Detail such as…

• 35 % of McCain voters got 10 or more of 13 multiple choice questions correct.
• 18% of Obama voters got 10 or more of 13 questions correct.
• McCain voters knew which party controls congress by a 63-27 margin.
  
  Obama voters got the “congressional control” question wrong by 43-41.
• Those that got “congressional control” correct voted 56-43 for McCain.
• Those that got “congressional control” wrong voted 65-35 for Obama.

And there is lots more at the link above. The trickier question, of course, is “what does this mean?” Not a whole helluva lot, to my way of thinking, as there will always be uninformed voters on both sides of the divide. That said, it certainly looks like the McCain voters got it right more often than the O-voters.

(h/t: Lex)