"More than 50 percent of Americans wrongly attributed the quote “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” to either George Washington, Thomas Paine, or President Barack Obama"

more than 50% actually turns out to be almost 80%. i could see jefferson. *maybe*. at least they didn't pick madison...

http://americanrevolutioncenter.org/sites/default/files/attachment/ARCv27_web.pdf

"Half did not have even a basic understanding of historical chronology, believing that either the Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, or War of 1812 occurred before the American Revolution."

"More than a third of American adults could not place the American Revolution in the correct century."

"equal numbers of Americans mistakenly believe that the Constitution established a direct democracy as correctly identify our form of national government as a democratic republic."

that's 50% thinking america was founded as direct democracy.

"70 percent of Americans knew that Michael Phelps made Olympic history with his eight gold medals."

"Compare that to the 60 percent who knew the number of children of Jon and Kate Gosselin, a reality-TV show couple."