Fox News tops source of voter misinformation

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Tigerlure said:

•   40% of voters believed incorrectly that the TARP legislation was initiated under Barack Obama, rather than George Bush
•   31% believed it was proven true that the US Chamber of Commerce spent large amounts of money it had raised from foreign sources to support Republican candidates
•   54% believed that there were no tax cuts in the stimulus legislation
•   86% assumed their taxes had gone up (38%) or stayed the same (48%), while only 10% were aware that their taxes had gone down since 2009
•   53% thought that the bailout of GM and Chrysler occurred only under Obama, though it was initiated under Bush

If you watch Fox News even today, these are facts that are just flat out ignored by right-wing media.

Not really. The fact that TARP and the bailouts started under Bush, at least, is mentioned on Fox News about as frequently as you might imagine given that Obama has been the president for about two years now. By continuing the policies as president (in addition to supporting them as senator), Obama owns them, and as the sitting president, he is the face of these policies. It's not all that surprising to me that Bush's involvement would go down the memory hole for a lot of people.