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Take the Political IQ Test...
Reaganite Republican ^
| February 01, 2011
| Reaganite Republican
Posted on 02/01/2011 6:24:38 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
-and see if you're any better than the average idiot!
This is a terrific test, albeit a couple months dated... very enlightening. But not in a good way... the pitiful results betray the fact that a solid majority of Americans have absolutely no idea what's going on in this country.
80% of the voting public doesn't have a clue-
and got less than half right!
This goes some ways towards explaining how a shady post-turtle like Barack Obama found his way into the Oval Office- and how the public can continue to be so easily manipulated by the thoroughly-discredited MSM hacks that endeavor to prop him up.
And there are no trick questions here - just a very simple test to see if you are current on your information. It's only a dozen questions... but NO Googling during the test, kids~
I just took it and got two wrong, I'll admit... but that's still good-enough to put me in the 94%tile, what does that tell you about the American voter today...
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: iq; politics; test; voters
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To: Reaganite Republican
I missed #11, which is the biggest part of the budget. I put medicare...
Mike
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posted on
02/01/2011 6:30:13 AM PST
by
MichaelP
("Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.)
To: Reaganite Republican
Got 11. Missed the “TARP money paid back” question.
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posted on
02/01/2011 6:32:48 AM PST
by
Little Ray
(The Gods of the Copybook Heading, with terror and slaughter return!)
To: MichaelP
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posted on
02/01/2011 6:33:12 AM PST
by
JPG
(Work for conservative change like your country depended on it.)
To: Reaganite Republican
Got all 12 right. Yay me.
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posted on
02/01/2011 6:33:45 AM PST
by
Abin Sur
To: Reaganite Republican
I missed the one about the three branches of government. I put “Congress, the Senate, and the President.” ;o)
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posted on
02/01/2011 6:34:50 AM PST
by
mbynack
(Retired USAF SMSgt)
To: Reaganite Republican
Huh? Interesting test. I missed the one about TRAP. I though I just read that less than half of the money had been paid back, guess I was wrong (otherwise I would have gotten them all correct).
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posted on
02/01/2011 6:36:03 AM PST
by
svcw
(God doesn't show up in our time, but He shows up on time)
To: Reaganite Republican
Isn’t political IQ an oxymoron?
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posted on
02/01/2011 6:36:23 AM PST
by
surfer
(To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
To: mbynack
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posted on
02/01/2011 6:37:05 AM PST
by
svcw
(God doesn't show up in our time, but He shows up on time)
To: Reaganite Republican
I missed #12, as I have no idea what Google’s search platform is.
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posted on
02/01/2011 6:39:39 AM PST
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: Reaganite Republican
Woo Hoo Got all 12 correct.
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posted on
02/01/2011 6:40:31 AM PST
by
Qwackertoo
(New Day In America November 03, 2010)
To: Reaganite Republican
I did the quiz, and it reported two of my answers wrong. I said that "less than half of the TARP was repaid", and the results page showed that I had answered "more than half" which is the wrong answer.
It also showed that I had checked "national defense" as the biggest expense in the fed budget, which is also wrong.
I paged back through the quiz and checked my clicks, just to verify that I hadn't checked those particular radio buttons, and my answers still showed as I had made them. They just didn't come through to the results page.
My answer on TARP was a guess, but the rest of them were not.
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posted on
02/01/2011 6:40:39 AM PST
by
thulldud
(Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
To: Little Ray
"Got 11. Missed the “TARP money paid back” question." Exactly the same here. I thought it was "less than half."
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posted on
02/01/2011 6:45:38 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: MichaelP
Me too, and for the same reason
To: Little Ray
Yep, that’s the second one I botched...
To: mbynack
ha ha, same as Sen. Schmucky lol
To: Reaganite Republican
To: MichaelP
To be fair, medicaid and medicare were about 20% of the budget, while defense was 23%. Social Security was 20% and tarp was 4%.
So SS + Medicare and caid = 43% of our 2009 budget. Defense is getting cut (a foolish move) to counter the exponential growth in SS, medicare and medicaid. I suspect that the question was politically motivated and the answer won’t be updated next year when the correct answer will be SS +. If they insist on keeping the Great Society programs separated, then we should split defense into Army, Navy, Air Force and other.
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posted on
02/01/2011 6:57:35 AM PST
by
cizinec
To: thulldud
That’s very odd - the same thing happened to me, same questions. Otherwise, I would have had 12 for 12, even if a couple of them were only educated guesses.
To: Reaganite Republican
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posted on
02/01/2011 7:04:13 AM PST
by
WellyP
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