[N_Fiddledog]

Pew research did a poll on how knowledgeable Americans are on their current politics. They then broke the demographics up - women, young, old, republicans, democrats.

One demographic not on the poll was Canadians.

Wanna check?

Here's the 12 question poll.

http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/

Here's the percentage breakdown on how the Americans did on the 12 questions.



I got 12/12, but I follow this stuff, and I guessed on the Dow Jones question.

Here's the breakdown results by demographics, but the answers are there, so probably best not to cheat, if you're going to do the quiz.

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1478/

[2Cdo]

10 of 12. I thought it was fairly straight forward with nothing truly difficult.

[N_Fiddledog]

Well, you beat or tied 92% of Americans, so that's 2 points for our side.

[bootlegga]

8 out of 12, not bad for an outsider...

[martin14]

10.

thought more casualties in Iraq..
and US gas imports ..

[2Cdo]

martin14 martin14:

10.

thought more casualties in Iraq..

Afghanistan has had more US casualties than Iraq for the last 2 years. Good thing we never went to Iraq.

[xerxes]

11/12 for me. Got the Iraq/Afghan casualties wrong...

[BartSimpson]

11/12 for me. It said the unemployment rate was only 10% - including the 'unemployable' it is actually in excess of 15%.

[N_Fiddledog]

I would've thought more than 41% would get the Stephen Colbert question correct.

$1:

This is the only question on the quiz that more people younger than age 30 than older people answer correctly (49% vs. 39%)

[Zipperfish]

10 out of 12. Guessed at about half. A good guesser, I guess.

[BartSimpson]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

10 out of 12. Guessed at about half. A good guesser, I guess.

I'll give you credit for being informed enough to pick good guesses.

[Beej]

8 out of 12, about what I expected.

[whiskeyjack]

8 out of 12

http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/index.php

and i dont follow american news unless something is posted on here lol

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[Akhenaten]

Lol. I only got a 7....that's the lowest here so far isn't it? In my defense I'm hopped up on cold medication.