**POLL** New Yorker Cover **POLL**

[Ron Green]

A simple question: Do you think the ultimate result of the New Yorker magazine cover and its coverage elsewhere in the media will be positve or negative?



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[gateley]

1. Other: Neither.

I don't think it'll make much difference in the big picture. The people who will "believe" it are those who believe it already.

[uberblonde]

4. I agree.

And they don't read the New Yorker, anyway.

[panader0]

2. Not sure, but I do agree that most Americans are stupid.

[totodeinhere]

8. They are not stupid.

They are just too preoccupied with trying to raise families and make ends meet that they don't have the time or energy to get engaged with politics.

[panader0]

11. One in five can't find Iraq on the map.

[TheDonkey]

3. I remember thinking Americans would never buy the "swiftboat smears" and were too smart to be fooled

by such vile, disgusting, unfounded scare tactics.

I was wrong.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

5. They interviewed a couple of people on the street on CNN and they fell for it.....

n/t

[nevergiveup]

6. All the right wing magazines

would have loved to do a cover like this but wouldn't dare. The right wingers are now all jumping with glee because the New Yorker did it for them. I doubt that in the New Yorker's history there has ever been a front cover that has received such national attention. There is no way this is a positive for Obama. IMHO

[Mz Pip]

7. It's not really satire

There has to be an element of truth in it for it to really work as satire. There isn't in this.

I get what they are trying to do, though.

[mnhtnbb]

9. The element of truth IS there: it's the fist bump. One true image in the cover.

[Hoof Hearted]

10. Other. I don't think it will have any effect at all.

[Upton]

12. Americans are amazingly stupid

Rick Shenkman’s new book, “Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth About the American Voter“:


–Only 2 in 5 voters can name the three branches of the federal government.

–Only 1 in 7 can find Iraq on a map.

–Only 1 in 5 know that there are 100 federal senators

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/08/just-how-ignorant-are-american-voters/