Some news audiences are more politically savvy than others, according to a new poll, with readers of The New Yorker and similar high-brow magazines being the most knowledgeable. The survey, conducted between April 30 and June 1 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, measured the political knowledge of 3,612 U.S. adults. Participants were asked to name the controlling party of the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. secretary of state and Great Britain's prime minister.
Yeah, yeah, yeah! The American people, on average, are political idiots. Please tell me something we don't know. This is exactly why the founding fathers despised the public mass. And this is why we have the Electoral College. Maybe it's time for a dictatorship. Just a thought.
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