Posted on 03/27/2007 11:57:33 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
24% Consider Al Gore Global Warming Expert March 24, 2007
Al Gore Former Vice President Al Gore (D) received a warm welcome on Capitol Hill last week for his testimony on the environment and Global Warming. However, while his film is now an Academy Award winner and he is a celebrity activist, just 24% of Americans consider Gore an expert on Global Warming. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of 1,000 adults found that 47% say he is not an expert on the topic (see crosstabs).
In fact, just 36% of Americans say that Gore knows what he is talking about when it comes to the environment and Global Warming. Thirty-one percent (31%) say he does not know what he is talking about while 33% are not sure. Women, by a 2-to-1 margin, say Gore knows what he is talking about. Men, by a similar margin, say he does not. (More Below)
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We do not disagree on this.
I just do not overestimate the smarts of the American electorate when presented with the slick packaging he has
It is up to us man. It is up to us.
We gotta keep exposing these guys. It is like taking out the trash. Something we gotta do for life.
I believe that was a P.T. Barnum comment.
That being said, if he had shown the electorate that side of him, however slickly packaged it is, he very well could have beaten President Bush in 2000...
he would definitely have beaten Bush in 2000 if he'd carried his own home state, which most moronic presidential candidates have managed to do...
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