The University of Maryland Program on International Policy Attitudes recently released a report showing a significant chunk of respondents to be deeply misinformed about Iraq (warning: PDF). It's not as bad as when an absurdly large percentage believed Iraq had nuked US troops in the field, but it's still pretty bad.
The pollsters also asked who the respondents planned to vote for. Not surprisingly, knowledge of the Iraq invasion (and lack thereof) figures greatly into voting plans:
These are the two most extreme cherrypicked examples, of course, but it's telling, and the poll is worth reading. One interesting finding is that no matter how much the media harps on US casualties, the perceived number of casualties doesn't correlate to respondents' opinion of the invasion's righteousness.
Posted by Warrior Tang at April 28, 2004 05:26 PM