The polling data is finally arrived, and we have some real winners in the birther “debate!” First winner: duh, America! Second winner: the Republican Party, 58 percent of which either thinks Obama was born outside of the United States, or doesn’t think there’s enough evidence to know for sure. UGH! Stop being stupid!
Check out today’s made-for-Drudge story at the Politico:
A whopping 58 percent of Republicans either think Barack Obama wasn’t born in the US (28 percent) or aren’t sure (30 percent). A mere 42 percent think he was.
That means a majority of Republicans polled either don’t know about — or don’t believe the seemingly incontrovertible evidence Obama’s camp has presented over and over and over that he was born in Hawaii in ’61.
It also explains why Republicans, including Roy Blunt, are playing footsie with the Birther fringe.
Look at the numbers yourself, complete with handy demographic breakdown:
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 7/27-30. All adults. MoE 2% (No trend lines)
Do you believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States of America or not?
Yes 77
No 11
Not sure 12
How do those numbers break down?
Yes No Not sure
Dem 93 4 3
Rep 42 28 30
Ind 83 8 9
Northeast 93 4 3
South 47 23 30
Midwest 90 6 4
West 87 7 6
18-29 88 4 8
30-44 72 14 14
45-59 82 8 10
60+ 69 17 14
Nope, not a surprise; OVERWHELMINGLY, Southerners are most likely to be completely retarded and have no clue. Coming in a close second: the olds.
That’s a whopping 77%…that is actually shocking.
I thought all the other presidents were the anti-christ! Obama scares me with his tactics. It looks like he wants to get rid of hard work and turn the whole world into his currency, health care and run it with a gov. union!
[...] But the important point is that a very wise and courageous man in Colorado is actually (and finally) raising that very query. Perhaps not surprisingly, he’s a car salesman. Also not surprisingly, he’s an uninformed bigot and a birther. [...]