Looking back at the polls, it is odd that they didn't provide an "undecided" or "no opinion" category. That could skew the results because people who do not know the answer will just guess. It probably is the case that many  of the people were not misinformed. They were probably ignorant about the issues and just guessed.

wow thanks for posting that

I woulda got a majority of those questions wrong, and I woulda got them wrong if I watched Fox, CNN, or MSNBC because I could really care less about worthless legislation that gets passed...what makes me happier is when nothing gets passed.

You know the funniest thing about Wikileaks in general (imho) is that it wouldn't be a big deal if the government didn't seem to think they have to lie to us about all sorts of things in our lives.  I really fail to understand why some of this information hasn't been given to us anyways.

George Bush didn't release his college transcript either, it's their own personal information and they have a right to hold onto it if they want to. Just like McCain never fully released his medical records.

Also he was a professor at the University of Chicago and I think still is. My friend goes to the University of Chicago law school and can show you his name on the faculty list.

Your just repeating the same crap wacko birther conspiracy theorists say. Any intelligent person can easily do their own research and prove the things you say wrong. 

I found very few problems with the survey methodology ( http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/dec10/Misinformation_Dec10_quaire.pdf ). The use of a Likert Scale in answering the questions gave voters more choice instead of being pigeonholed into "True; Fale; No Opinion/Don't Know." If the answers only contain three options, then the likelihood your results will not reflect the US population as a whole and the margin of error gets much higher. For this very reason, the Likert Scale is the most commonly used form of answer in surveys.

@Kasz, it was Rand Paul, Kentucky's newest US Senator who was for removing parts of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that required privately owned businesses who serve the public to desegregate. ( http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2010/05/20/rand_paul_maddow_segregation_open2010 )

As for Fox News spreading misinformation, Roger Ailes, head of Fox News, was a media consultant for Presidents Nixon, Reagan, and George HW Bush. Roger Ailes also consulted for Rudy Giuliani during his first mayoral campaign in 1989. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ailes#Early_television ).

Ken Jautz, the head of CNN, gave Glenn Beck his a primetime 7pm CNN HLN slot in effect unleashing this fringe right-wing Mormon idiot upon the world. ( http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/ken-jautz-cnn-future-21202 ).

Phil Griffin, the head of MSNBC, is an industry man being with MSNBC when it was founded in 1996 and was with NBC news beforehand. ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25707456/ )

I would like to part saying Fox News from Roger Ailes on down reflects a good deal of Roger Ailes' biases. Fox News is not "Fair and Balanced" especially when you consider O'Reilly, Hannity, and Beck do not have liberal counterparts with their own show on Fox News. Furthermore, the use of "Government Option" instead of "Public Options" during the US healthcare debate in 2010 shows that the reporters NOT the commentators at Fox News follow orders like Germans during the Third Reich making the reporters at Fox News just as culpable in promoting a conservative view and tone to news reporting. ( http://mediamatters.org/blog/201012090003 ).

I do not like how Roger Ailes runs Fox News, but I would get along with him just fine on a personal level. Here he is utterly wtfpwning Arianna Huffington while Krugman twiddles his pencil with his head down thinking "Oh God, what have I gotten into...Please don't lay into me." George Will, the conservative columnist for the Washington Post, is just amazed at how deft and ruthless Ailes is:

Ailes is right considering Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman Democratic candidate to run for US VP in 1984. Geraldine Ferraro has been a commentator for Fox News since 1999. You can check wikipedia to verify this. Here is her page at Fox News:

http://www.foxnews.com/bios/talent/geraldine-ann-ferraro/

I actually think that particular thing WAS given out, it's just nobody paid attention.  I do remember them talking about chemical weapons found and nobody paying attention to it.

he is not a professor your friend is misinformed 

I just randomly decided to look up something on CNN, and this is what you get (and it is totally true).

http://www.charlotteconservative.com/index.php/2010/12/no-conservatives-in-cnn-panel-discussion-on-taxes-gays-in-the-military/

These stations may claim that they have conservatives fighting the liberals on the issues, but they are NOT conservatives, they are just in the middle...are liberals really so ignorant that they never seem to see anything wrong with their stations but then always just bash the conservative stuff?...At least I know my conservative stations have problems.

Calling the conservatives on other stations conservatives is just like Glenn Beck saying FoxNews has all sorts of liberals because they are just people in the middle instead of being crazily far to the right (which I don't even like).

Here's a link for where Beck said that:

http://www.politicususa.com/en/beck-fox-liberals