A limey asks:

Would the average US voter know the name of his state Governor?
Would the average US voter know the name of his state Senator?
Would the average US voter know the name of his district congressman?
Would the average US voter know the name of majority party in the senate?
Would the average US voter know the name of majority party in the house?
Would the average US voter know the name of majority leader in the senate?
Would the average US voter know the name of majority leader in the house?
Would the average US voter know the name of the house speaker?
Would the average US voter know the name of the senate speaker?

I am just trying to get a handle on what voters know.

Thanks in advance.

Not much

Imo you're asking the wrong question, what does the average politician know is far more impacting to all of us. They clearly have huge, gaping leaks in their game.....

It's probably time to elect people other than just people with law and business backgrounds. LOl there was this one DR/politician that thought that the Earth was 5k years old, thats ****ing adorable but should be filtered out from running any type of government office, even the DMV.

Do you know who this is?

iswydt

The answer to all of your questions is absolutely, unequivocally, no. And I'd bet my life savings on it.

A significant percentage of American adults don't even know who the vice president is. 40% of Americans think that the world is 10,000 years old. A disturbing number of Americans don't even know that there are 50 states.

There is zero chance that a majority of Americans would get one of those questions right.

Thanks for your answer.

In the UK, you can only expect a majority of voters to know the name of the PM and the party in power (and by default the one not in -multiple parties but basically like the US a two-party system).

Famously, in 1999, a black woman was being annoyed by a man on the London Underground ("the tube"). She did her best to ignore him. It turned out he was Tony Blair, Prime Minister (1997-2007), and it was so embarrassing for him he had to invite her to 10 Downing Street for a photo op.

The average us voter knows way more than You think.

You got to know your puppet masters... if you don’t know your puppet masters you can’t vote... how can you vote if you don’t know your puppet masters

They average voter knows very little truth because the media does not tell the truth. They believe everything they see on TV

The average voter doesn't know anything

They have lives and **** to do and no time to look things up

And no interest in learning, nor the capacity to understand complex things

So they rely on memes, headlines, and the infinite feedback loop from all their devices

Instead of books, articles, and a keen interest in truth, learning, and exploring curiosity

Even worse, they just believe things and default to logical fallacies they don't understand to explain things they don't understand, and have too much of an ego to immediately admit ignorance, being wrong about something, and absorbing/accepting new information. It also doesn't help that information of any reliable quality is harder to come by these days and an average person isn't exactly going to be sharp enough to decipher such information and discard the noise. They're susceptible to drowning themselves in the noise...Even smart people are

I think the reason the average voter is so well informed is because politics plays such a big role in everyone’s life here.

A limey asks:

Would the average US voter know the name of his state Governor?Yes
Would the average US voter know the name of his state Senator?Yes
Would the average US voter know the name of his district congressman?Yes
Would the average US voter know the name of majority party in the senate?No
Would the average US voter know the name of majority party in the house?Yes
Would the average US voter know the name of majority leader in the senate?Yes
Would the average US voter know the name of majority leader in the house?Yes
Would the average US voter know the name of the house speaker?no
Would the average US voter know the name of the senate speaker?No

I am just trying to get a handle on what voters know.

Thanks in advance.

i assume you're joking

answers in bold

I am not joking. I think mass media teaches people that US voters are uninformed because
They want more pliable workers.

Aussies are dumber than americans. It's what makes them special in the world.