Poll: Only 42% Of Republicans Believe Obama Born In US
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Democrats, Polls, RepublicansA new Research 2000 poll reveals an incredibly disturbing view among registered Republicans. Because that means that 58% of them either believe he wasn’t born in the US or aren’t sure. That’s how far and deep this birthers’ nonsense has spread…from a racist chain email.
Here’s the question and the party breakdowns…
“Do you believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States of America or not?”
Republicans
Yes: 42%
No: 28%
Not Sure: 30%
Democrats
Yes: 94%
No: 4%
Not Sure: 3%
Independents
Yes: 83%
No: 8%
Not Sure: 9%
When all the numbers are put together we see that 77% say Yes, 11% say No and 12% say Not Sure.
Amazing.
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July 31st, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Well critical thinking isn’t exactly a republican strong point.
July 31st, 2009 at 12:39 pm
I’ve been telling Republicans this for a long time: your fringe has become your mainstream.
Rational Republicans are under the now-laughable misconception that they are driving the bus and the nuts are passengers. No. The GOP is run by the crazies. The GOP is now officially the party of crazy people. It’s the rational Republicans who are the fringe now.
God only knows why the rational Republican remnant still pay dues to the asylum.
July 31st, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Well if critical thinking is not a strong point for Republicans … how do you explain supporting partial birth abortions? Not sure how this is rational thinking … Liberals please take the floor … My baby is half alive, lets kill it
July 31st, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Reason‘s Jesse Walker has a good assessment of the “birther” phenomenon. I think he has it more or less down, particularly with these two quotes:
and
July 31st, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Inerestingly, it appears that nearly all of the birthers come from the South:
July 31st, 2009 at 11:32 pm
C Lyne:
Partial birth abortions are often performed in cases where the baby is decidedly not alive in the usual sense of that word. For example, where a baby’s brain is damaged to such an extent that it would die in pain within days. Or when a baby will be born with major organs outside of its body. Or when the birth might kill both mother and child. Or when the baby’s body is so deformed that it could not live outside of life-support — ever.
Let’s be clear: we are not talking about sick babies. Or unhealthy babies. We’re talking about disastrous babies, catastrophic DNA failures that medical science cannot begin to address.
So-called “partial birth” abortions are .2 percent of abortions. No sane mother deliberately waits until her baby is ready to be born and then opts whimsically for such a procedure. Women do it because they have no practical alternative.
August 1st, 2009 at 9:36 am
C Lyne,
even bringing up that as some type of proof shows your lack of reasoning ability. Thank you for proving my point though.
Justin – I’ve noticed that as you’ve gotten more fed up with the republican side of things, the commenters on here have gotten more extreme. It’s interesting because I think it matches the larger pattern of things happening in the country.