[BigV]

motherf*cker.

not you, Grav.

What a depressing downer. Not just "man on the street", but presumably, college students. Those weren't... exceptionally tricky questions, were they? I know, I'm talking to my own demographic echo chamber here. I wonder who our youngest current posting member is these days. It's not me. We don't have anyone here who is from that cohort, do we?

Not that you have to be an old fart to know who won the civil war (or the war or northern aggression, maybe that's why the texans didn't get the question...) or who the vice president is... Nor do you have to be a young whippersnapper to know who Brad Pitt is married to and was married to (I recognized the name "Snookie", though I haven't seen the show Jersey Shore and wouldn't have gotten that question right). I understand (and share Gravdigr's foreboding) about the area of focus for these voters.

What do they even see? (Hollywood) What does it take to get their attention? (tv and movies and the interweb) What kind of presentation is persuasive for these citizens? (god knows).

Yeah. Doomed.