“Republicans hate science.”
“Obama is the smartest president of all time, you just are too stupid to understand him.”
How many times have you heard something similar to that? Well, this is a good rebuttal.
Republicans have higher “News IQ’s”, on average, by a margin of 0.7 points.
From Downtrend:
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press recently ran a “News IQ” survey that measured “the public’s awareness of key facts in the news: from questions about conflicts around the world to the current minimum wage and the chair of the Federal Reserve.” And surprisingly enough (rolling eyes), it was in fact Republicans who performed the best.
Cue The Washington Times:
By a wide margin, Republicans proved more likely to know that there are more Shiites than Sunnis in Iran. They are more aware that Common Core is an educational standard and that oil is driving North Dakota’s economic boom. More Republicans can identify Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s prime minister. Fewer Democrats realize that ISIS controls territory in Syria, and that Ukraine was once part of the Soviet Union.
Janet Yellen is far from a household name, but 27 percent of Republicans were able to identify her as Federal Reserve chairman, one point higher than the Democratic score. About three-quarters of Americans know the federal minimum wage is $7.25, but Republicans edged out Democrats by a single point here again. The only things that Democrats knew better than Republicans were that Liberia had an Ebola outbreak and that 15 percent are living below the poverty line.
So Republicans know more when it comes to substantive issues (ethnic divisions, education policies, foreign affairs, etc.), while Democrats know more when it comes to the concerns of the poor and needy. Hah!
Read more at http://youngcons.com/told-you-so-lo...onservatives-vs-liberals/#3yYfl2Okk0dws95g.99
“Obama is the smartest president of all time, you just are too stupid to understand him.”
How many times have you heard something similar to that? Well, this is a good rebuttal.
Republicans have higher “News IQ’s”, on average, by a margin of 0.7 points.
From Downtrend:
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press recently ran a “News IQ” survey that measured “the public’s awareness of key facts in the news: from questions about conflicts around the world to the current minimum wage and the chair of the Federal Reserve.” And surprisingly enough (rolling eyes), it was in fact Republicans who performed the best.
Cue The Washington Times:
By a wide margin, Republicans proved more likely to know that there are more Shiites than Sunnis in Iran. They are more aware that Common Core is an educational standard and that oil is driving North Dakota’s economic boom. More Republicans can identify Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s prime minister. Fewer Democrats realize that ISIS controls territory in Syria, and that Ukraine was once part of the Soviet Union.
Janet Yellen is far from a household name, but 27 percent of Republicans were able to identify her as Federal Reserve chairman, one point higher than the Democratic score. About three-quarters of Americans know the federal minimum wage is $7.25, but Republicans edged out Democrats by a single point here again. The only things that Democrats knew better than Republicans were that Liberia had an Ebola outbreak and that 15 percent are living below the poverty line.
So Republicans know more when it comes to substantive issues (ethnic divisions, education policies, foreign affairs, etc.), while Democrats know more when it comes to the concerns of the poor and needy. Hah!
Read more at http://youngcons.com/told-you-so-lo...onservatives-vs-liberals/#3yYfl2Okk0dws95g.99
