The Zogby polling service took a poll after the election of people who had voted for Obama to gauge their knowledge of the issues.  Some of the results are listed at Power Line Blog.  In reading the results, you can see how the media played a role in this election.  You can also see how the ‘celebrity gossip’ culture played a role.  There was one remark which the people polled credited to Sarah Palin that was actually made by Tina Fey.  We need to educate our voters (97 percent of these people were high school graduates and 55 percent were college graduates).  We need to work on our education system to teach people how to pay attention to what is going on around them–other than celebrity gossip.