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Our Ill-Informed Electorate

Posted in Uncategorized by Joshua Weichhand on January 30, 2010

According to a recent Pew survey on American political awareness:

[Just] 32% know that the Senate passed its version of the legislation without a single Republican vote. And, in what proved to be the most difficult question on the quiz, only about a quarter (26%) knows that it takes 60 votes to break a filibuster1 in the Senate and force a vote on a bill.

Once again, books and newspapers lose out to torches and pitchforks. But in all fairness, the latter are probably easier to use.

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