Bush Supporters’ Knowledge Gap

Boston Globe: In a study conducted by the Program on International Policy Attitudes, supporters of W show quite a bit more slippage between opinion and reality regarding Iraq-related issues than do Kerry supporters (in other words, Bush supporters statistically believe more things about Iraq that are not true).

Kull said it is common for voters to tailor their views on particular issues to those of the candidate they favor overall, but the extent to which Bush supporters are filtering out news from Iraq that might reflect poorly on the president is unprecedented.

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