Obama voters didn't know facts
Letter to the Editor
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

I read Kathleen Parker's column Nov. 20 ("Religion is killing the GOP") and found it disgusting!

Parker seems to think it is the religious right that is ruining the Republican Party instead of the Democratic mouthpiece we call the mainstream media of which she is a part.

Ms. Parker bashes Gov. Palin while ignoring the fact that a Zogby poll showed 57 percent of President-elect Obama supporters didn't know who controlled Congress. Many could not identify Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi; 86 percent didn't know how President-elect Obama won his first election (he got the other three candidates disqualified); 86 percent didn't know President-elect Obama said he would bankrupt the coal industry or new coal-fired power plants; 72 percent didn't know Biden had to quit a campaign because of plagiarism; 87 percent did know that the Republican Party spent $150,000 dollars on Gov. Palin's clothes; 93 percent knew Gov. Palin had a pregnant teenage daughter.

Least you think the questions were asked of the uneducated: 97 percent of those sampled were high school graduates and 55 percent were college graduates.

The failure of the press (of which Ms Parker is a part) to educate the voters is a threat to the republic! Someone once said, "If you read the newspapers you will be informed, however misinformed." This appears to be truer today than ever before!

David G. Brown, Augusta

From the Tuesday, November 25, 2008 edition of the Augusta Chronicle
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