Check out this link to the Pew Research Center’s Pew News IQ test. It asks you twelve questions about current events and shows you your score as well as how you rank according to demographics. I answered all twelve correctly and scored in the 97th percentile. The test was fairly easy in my opinion, especially since it was multiple choice. But despite that, most people did fairly poorly. Even the most casual news watcher or reader should be able to get all of these. I guess that means people just don’t keep up with the news.
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I was watching CNN’s pre-debate coverage tonight. The anchor of the show was talking to a reporter at the Democratic debate site and mention that only Clinton and Obama were invited. Then she mentioned that there was actually one more Democrat still in the running, Mike Gravel and asked the on-site reporter why he wasn’t invited. Of course when she made this mention, she called him Mike Gavel and then called him Mike Gravel, but with the emphasis on the wrong syllable. Moral of the story? She didn’t have a clue who Mike Gravel is and was just reading the questions off a prompter. I would think that someone should have gone over that with her in the show prep, but apparently it didn’t happen.
Ironically, by making her ignorance of Mike Gravel known, she ended up answering her own question. He wasn’t invited because most of America doesn’t even know who he is and he consistently gets 0% of the vote in the primaries as a result. He’s actually a pretty cool dude and is worth checking out. While I don’t think he’s Presidential material, I do think he’s cabinet worthy if he’d be willing to take a post.
