Well, $7.50 was not offered as one of the answers. The real answer was 30 quarters as opposed to 90 pennies, 50 dimes, and some amount of nickles.
It wasn’t that hard, but I can see how performance anxiety could get in the way. She did say she was terribly nervous before she got the question.
This mid-western girl is going to give her a big break because just before the question she said that middle America is nicer than people on the coast.
Why ?
What would we have done if it was Obama, Biden, Pelosi or Reid who flubbed this question ?
And What would the left have done if it was Quayle, Palin, Bush or Cheney ?
They would have been figuratively boiled in oil is what would have happened. She does not get a pass from me.