kane

Actually I don't think that is far off base. Everyone knows who Hillary is. I think some of them knew who Obama and Edwards were, but the rest of the candidates were pretty much unknown. And even of those that knew who Obama and Edwards were I would bet that many of them knew very little about them. People choose candidates for odd reasons and I think most people do very little research when it comes to choosing those candidates.

Here is an interesting site that shows who people actually know. It shows in 2007 about 93% of the people knew who Hillary was but only 61% knew who Obama was. At the same time only 69% knew Cheney was the VP and only 65% knew who the governor of their state was.

http://people-press.org/reports/disp...3?ReportID=319

so I don't think I am too far off base when I say that a lot of people were simply either unaware of who was running or that they knew very little about most of the candidates.