In the 2008 presidential election one state, and only one state, registered a Republican win in every single county. That was Oklahoma. All 77 counties were decisive wins for John McCain. Today Oklahoma is back in the news. News from the reddest state in America....
75% of Oklahoma High School Students Can't Name the First President of the U.S.
KOTV 6
September 16, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY - Only one in four public high school students can name the first President of the United States, according to a survey released today. The survey was commissioned by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs in observance of Constitution Day on Thursday. The Oklahoma City-based think tank enlisted national research firm, Strategic Vision, to access students' basic civic knowledge. OCPA commissioned a national research firm, Strategic Vision, to determine Oklahoma public high-school students' level of basic civic knowledge.
Students were given 10 questions drawn from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services item bank. Candidates for U.S. citizenship must answer six questions correctly in order to become citizens. About 92% of the people who take the citizenship test pass on their first try, according to immigration service data. However, Oklahoma students did not fare as well. Only about 3% of the students surveyed would have passed the citizenship test.
Last week I wrote an op-ed piece that said in part...
There is nothing "grand" remaining about the Grand Old Party. Once a viable national political force, they have now sunk to a reduced base of mainly predominantly white, under-educated, fringe radicals, residing in a few southern regressive states. They did it to themselves, and their leaders seem powerless, or unwilling to reverse the trend. Actually they no longer have national "leaders", just individuals more recognizable than others. In place of leaders they just revel in the wisdom of their stars like Joe The Plumber, Sarah Palin, who couldn't even finish one term as governor, and radio hate mongers.
A large part of the Republican base calls themselves the "religious right", and they're equally unhinged. When the President visited Phoenix on August 17th, local minister Steven Anderson of the Faithful World Baptist Church, who strongly expresses hatred for Obama in many of his sermons, told his congretation that he wished him dead. Later it was discovered that Chris Broughton, the man who brought an AR-15 assault rifle to the Phoenix town hall meeting where Obama spoke, had attended Anderson's sermon. In a later interview, Broughton said he concurred with his pastor's wish to see Obama "die and go to hell."
They've convinced themselves that the President isn't even a citizen. He's a socialist. He's a Nazi. He's the anti-Christ. They have more conspiracy theories than the National Enquirer. It's as if they've become the party of Sasquatch hunters and UFO spotters. http://www.youtube.c...h?v=lPwGV1h4lW8
I rest my case.
75% of Oklahoma High School Students Can't Name the First President of the U.S.
KOTV 6
September 16, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY - Only one in four public high school students can name the first President of the United States, according to a survey released today. The survey was commissioned by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs in observance of Constitution Day on Thursday. The Oklahoma City-based think tank enlisted national research firm, Strategic Vision, to access students' basic civic knowledge. OCPA commissioned a national research firm, Strategic Vision, to determine Oklahoma public high-school students' level of basic civic knowledge.
Students were given 10 questions drawn from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services item bank. Candidates for U.S. citizenship must answer six questions correctly in order to become citizens. About 92% of the people who take the citizenship test pass on their first try, according to immigration service data. However, Oklahoma students did not fare as well. Only about 3% of the students surveyed would have passed the citizenship test.
Last week I wrote an op-ed piece that said in part...
There is nothing "grand" remaining about the Grand Old Party. Once a viable national political force, they have now sunk to a reduced base of mainly predominantly white, under-educated, fringe radicals, residing in a few southern regressive states. They did it to themselves, and their leaders seem powerless, or unwilling to reverse the trend. Actually they no longer have national "leaders", just individuals more recognizable than others. In place of leaders they just revel in the wisdom of their stars like Joe The Plumber, Sarah Palin, who couldn't even finish one term as governor, and radio hate mongers.
A large part of the Republican base calls themselves the "religious right", and they're equally unhinged. When the President visited Phoenix on August 17th, local minister Steven Anderson of the Faithful World Baptist Church, who strongly expresses hatred for Obama in many of his sermons, told his congretation that he wished him dead. Later it was discovered that Chris Broughton, the man who brought an AR-15 assault rifle to the Phoenix town hall meeting where Obama spoke, had attended Anderson's sermon. In a later interview, Broughton said he concurred with his pastor's wish to see Obama "die and go to hell."
They've convinced themselves that the President isn't even a citizen. He's a socialist. He's a Nazi. He's the anti-Christ. They have more conspiracy theories than the National Enquirer. It's as if they've become the party of Sasquatch hunters and UFO spotters. http://www.youtube.c...h?v=lPwGV1h4lW8
I rest my case.
