A Simple Question

[TwinsX2Dad]

As a side note, there are a lot of people here who are not from the USA and shouldn't necessarily be expected to be familiar with USA history or to know this. So, expect to find some who vote according to what they know, but will naturally vote wrongly.

Actually, in my experience, Europeans & Asians seem to be better educated on matters like this than are Americans. My reference to Sean Hannity bears this out. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Sean Hannity, he is a conservative radio & television talk show host. Anyway, his street segments place a woman with a cell phone out on the streets of New York, Washington & Boston - sometimes elsewhere, but these are the tree they pick on the most. This woman grabs people at random, doesn't tell them who they will be talking to and gets them to talk to Sean on the phone. He asks simple questions - who is the President, who is the Vice-President, who is Secretary of State, who is the British Prime Minister. It is really sad how many people can't give the correct answer for the VP and others. What is worse is that there are occasionally those who cannot tell you who the President is.

Residents of the state of New Mexico are often told they cannot place an order, because the company doesn't ship to international destinations. In fact, depending on who you choose to listen to, between 20 and 30 percent of Americans think New Mexico is south of the border and not a part of the United States. There are many who don't know that Georgia is a country, not just an American state.

So, Americans are often not the sharpest tools in the shed. Please don't sell yourselves short, just because you're not American.

[alan s]

amazingly enough the person who voted for Larry The Cable Guy wasnt me....................

[anunlike]

Taking that as a given for a moment (I think that's overgeneralizing and oversimplifying things), you still can't expect every person to know the answer, and if you don't know the details of the person voting and what their vote was, the stat is pretty useless, in an overall context.

I mean, getting results from a group of people, when you nothing to very little about those people, individually and as a whole, isn't suggestive of anything, as per a poll like this.

It might be interesting to see what the results are, but the results don't mean anything and aren't suggestive of anything.

[TwinsX2Dad]

It might be interesting to see what the results are, but the results don't mean anything and aren't suggestive of anything.

You're correct, which means this poll is about as accurate and worthwhile as any online message board poll. The alternative is that it is all for fun!

I like fun.

I am forced to grow old - I am not forced to grow up.   

[anunlike]

Ok. Was just curious.

[technodragon73]

Simple question - you know the answer, don't you?

so far 11 people have it wrong...ROFL

[IchBin]

I prefer to think that the first President was George Washington since he was the first president under the constitution. But I won't name the real one. I think there were 6 or 7 others before George too if I remember right.

[technodragon73]

I prefer to think that the first President was George Washington since he was the first president under the constitution. But I won't name the real one. I think there were 6 or 7 others before George too if I remember right.

* technodragon73 claps for IchBin

[TwinsX2Dad]

I prefer to think that the first President was George Washington since he was the first president under the constitution.

Hey wait a cotton picking minute - did George Washington ever get his image on a dollar bill?

Oh wait - I guess he did.      

[anunlike]

I prefer to think that the first President was George Washington since he was the first president under the constitution.

Good answer.