Pew Poll: 39 Percent of Republicans Want More Coverage of Obama’s Citizenship

[babylonsister]

Lesson learned. Never underestimate the stupidity of the rethugs.

http://washingtonindependent.com/54057/pew-poll-39-percent-of-republicans-want-more-coverage-of-obamas-citizenship

Pew Poll: 39 Percent of Republicans Want More Coverage of Obama’s Citizenship
By David Weigel 8/6/09 11:19 AM


A new poll from the Pew Research Center finds that 28 percent of Americans believe that there’s been “too little” coverage of “allegations that President Obama was not born in the United States” — including a plurality, 39 percent, of self-identified Republicans. Only 14 percent of Democrats and 30 percent of independents share that view.

“If anything surprised me, it’s how many people have heard about this,” said Michael Dimock, an associate director at the Pew Research Center. “When we put the question in, we said to ourselves, well, Lou Dobbs has covered it, and it’s been discussed on the Internet. For 80 percent of people to have heard something about this is pretty high.”

Dimock told TWI that the survey’s sample was not large enough to find statistically significant breakdowns from one region of the country to the other, or to break the poll down between whites, blacks, and other minorities. The high number of Republicans who want “coverage,” said Dimock, does not necessarily mean that they’re all “birthers.” Instead, the number could be viewed as a screen for the persistent doubts of Obama’s political skeptics.

“It goes back to what we tracked last year, when we consistently found that 10 or 11 percent of Americans believed that he was Muslim,” said Dimock. “There is a core group of Americans who have never been comfortable with Barack Obama. A story like this sort of resonates with these folks. Oh! Maybe he isn’t one of us!”

[Myrina]

1. So, that's ... 39% of 23% which equals what, about 100k people total?

Give it up, Birthers! :freak:

[nc4bo]

6. I know, right?!

What's really disturbing (more than the Birther freaks) is the fact that M$M outlets are giving these people air time as if they were formidable opposition force.

How much coverage did the media whores give the left during the previous 8 horrible nightmarish years?!

Their numbers are the absolute minority and they represent the unhinged, uneducated, Xian freaks known as the Republican base.

[flakey_foont]

2. please, Dear Lord

make it stop!!!

[mwb970]

3. What's to cover?

The actual facts have been laid out a thousand times, as have the charges of the Birthers, each easily debunked. Other than yet more commentary, what kind of "coverage" are they after?

:shrug:

[babylonsister]

4. I have no idea. They can't handle the truth? nt

[Johonny]

5. lol

The way it's worded I guess people could answer yeah I want more coverage about how crazy this topic is. It's a poll because of that. Given how the birthers come off I can see why people on the left want more coverage too:)