Public Struggles With Scale of Federal Budget

[RedEarth]

Given four choices as to the size of the federal budget presented by the President last week, 39% of American voters did not offer any answer, 36% guessed wrong, and just 24% knew the answer--$3.1 trillion dollars.

Nineteen percent (19%) said the budget presented totaled $301 trillion annually while 10% thought the proper answer was $301 billion. Seven percent (7%) thought it was only $3.1 billion.

Thirty-four percent (34%) of men knew the proper answer along with 15% of women. Voters under 30 and over 65 were less likely to know the proper answer than those between 30 and 64.

http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/public_struggles_with_scale_of_federal_budget

[ProdigalJunkMail]

1. that's pretty sad...

"Given four choices..." hell, statistically speaking they had a 25% chance of getting it right and yet the respondents were even less lucky guessing than results that rolling a four sided die would have given...

Reminds me of the Katrina evacuee suing for something 3.4 quadrillion dollars...

sP

[RedEarth]

2. That was exactly my thought ......... 25% chance and the majority

still got it wrong. Sadly, many people don't have the slightest clue about what's going on and that's why wedge issues can play a big part in elections.