Campaign 2008

Is civic literacy essential to vote?

Midmorning asks what a well-informed citizen should know about America while preparing to vote, and whether, as some have suggested, such civics knowledge should serve as a prerequisite to casting a ballot.

Guests

• Richard Brake: Director of University Stewardship at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
• Mark Osterloh, MD: Physician and political reformer. In 2006, he led a ballot initiative that would automatically make each person who casts a vote eligible to win $1 million in unclaimed state lottery money.

More from MPR

• Revamped citizenship test focuses more on concepts
  October 1, 2008
• A sample of the revised citizenship test
  September 29, 2008

Resources

• Take a civics quiz
• U.S. Immigration's new civics test for citizenship