Totally Unsurprising

This is the best summation I’ve seen of the Ziegler-commissioned Zogby poll of Obama voters that has so many of our friends on the right in a genuine tizzy.

Apart from the exclusion of McCain supporters and whether the poll’s questions were representative of overall campaign knowledge, the poll didn’t demonstrate that the news media favored Obama, or that any media distortions “got Obama elected.” No questions addressed how voters got their information or how the answers to the questions influenced their vote. It may well be that supporters of each candidate gravitate toward media that downplay the shortcomings of their own candidates and highlight those of opponents — or simply that they retain knowledge that conforms with their world view.

As the Washington Times aptly put it, the poll “essentially revealed that [Obama] voters remembered good stuff about the president-elect and bad stuff about Sen. John McCain’s campaign.”

What this poll does demonstrate is the inability of many of our dextra pals to be introspective.  Why is it so hard to believe that the current political climate ended up getting a Democrat elected?