It’s truly amazing how people can watch the same thing and come to wildly different conclusions.  This is exactly what happened in the wake of Monday’s debate.  If you read websites like the Huffington Post and Politico, you would think that Obama himself came down from Heaven to save us from ourselves, while Mitt Romney languished in his impending defeat.  On the flip-side, conservatives are all but certain that Romney is going to win, especially after what they believed was a stellar performance on Monday night.

So who is right?  This leads me back to a phenomenon I told you about earlier in the year called the Dunning-Kruger effect.  The research of these two Cornell University professors “shows that incompetent people are inherently unable to judge the competence of other people, or the quality of those people's ideas … They simply lack the mental tools needed to make meaningful judgments.  As a result, no amount of information or facts about political candidates can override the inherent inability of many voters to accurately evaluate them.”

Is this sounding like a particular breed of voter to you?  If reading that last paragraph didn’t automatically paint the picture of many Obama voters, than perhaps you yourself suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect.  Honestly folks … with all the information that is out there, it’s amazing that Obama could still enjoy the level of support that he is currently seeing, or that many undecided voters could still be considering him as a choice! 

This line from David Dunning says it all: “To the extent that you are incompetent, you are a worse judge of incompetence in other people.”  What does this say about Barack Obama supporters who support that incompetent hack for re-election?