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Jon Ace

(243 posts)
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 02:50 PM Mar 2012

Obama’s Muslim, evolution is fake & Rush Limbaugh is great, Republican voters say in poll

Source: NY Daily News

Voters in Alabama and Mississippi may still be split on which Republican they want in the White House, but they agree on this much — in their minds, President Obama is a Muslim.

A stunning 66% of Mississippi respondents to a survey done ahead of Tuesday’s presidential primary have bought into the false notion that Obama worships Allah, Public Policy Polling reported Monday. Some 36% said they weren’t sure.

In Alabama, 45% responded in the affirmative when asked the same question and 41% said they weren’t sure, pollsters found.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election-2012/obama-muslim-evolution-fake-amp-rush-limbaugh-great-republican-voters-poll-article-1.1037530#ixzz1oviP9b68


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election-2012/obama-muslim-evolution-fake-amp-rush-limbaugh-great-republican-voters-poll-article-1.1037530?localLinksEnabled=false

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Obama’s Muslim, evolution is fake & Rush Limbaugh is great, Republican voters say in poll (Original Post) Jon Ace Mar 2012 OP
The choices were "yes" and "not sure"??? Fearless Mar 2012 #1
In other news: Facts are for "morans" and "edjucation" is for snobs /nt think Mar 2012 #2
The sky is metal, grass is plaid and chowder66 Mar 2012 #3
lol nt Robeysays Mar 2012 #4
I'm thinking to turn it around chowder66 Mar 2012 #6
Well... Andy823 Mar 2012 #5
They weren't so great at arithmetic, either. mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2012 #7
y = 98 izquierdista Mar 2012 #11
Where did you get the 66%? cstanleytech Mar 2012 #20
"Maybe they caught it and edited it?" mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2012 #22
Ah, thanks. cstanleytech Mar 2012 #23
That's 'Muslin' BTW Kingofalldems Mar 2012 #8
that tears at the fabric of society! yurbud Mar 2012 #10
This is how Bush won twice..... MindMover Mar 2012 #9
Speaking of fraud... JaneFordA Mar 2012 #12
This poll was of Republican voters.................... marmar Mar 2012 #13
What I would find interesting would be to find out where they get most of their news. cstanleytech Mar 2012 #21
embarrassing Skittles Mar 2012 #14
The US should've let those states go instead of fighting the Civil War. alp227 Mar 2012 #15
Stupid is as stupid does sarcasmo Mar 2012 #16
Lioke the PSA says: "The mind is a terrible thing to waste." Viva_Daddy Mar 2012 #17
Am much as I hate buying into the right-wing portrayal of liberals hating America, Jamaal510 Mar 2012 #18
What? No birther Shit? excuse not to write Mar 2012 #19
In both States most Voters still register as Democrats, then vote GOP for State and National Offices happyslug Mar 2012 #24
NPR had a piece on that this morning...complete with idiot moron Republican voters... Evasporque Mar 2012 #25

chowder66

(9,094 posts)
6. I'm thinking to turn it around
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 03:08 PM
Mar 2012

we should redefine the following;
Muslim = excellent
Fake = true
Great = done

Therefore; Obama is excellent, evolution is true and Rush is done.

Spinning! (my really bad take on Charlie Sheens "winning" comment)

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,695 posts)
7. They weren't so great at arithmetic, either.
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 03:19 PM
Mar 2012
A stunning 66% of Mississippi respondents to a survey done ahead of Tuesday’s presidential primary have bought into the false notion that Obama worships Allah, Public Policy Polling reported Monday. Some 36% said they weren’t sure.


x = 66 + 36

Solve for x.
 

izquierdista

(11,689 posts)
11. y = 98
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 03:48 PM
Mar 2012

When you allow for people to hold two contradictory ideas in their mind, simultaneously, you get that x + y = 200.

cstanleytech

(26,344 posts)
20. Where did you get the 66%?
Tue Mar 13, 2012, 12:25 AM
Mar 2012

Or maybe I missed it because what I read said

"A stunning 52% of Mississippi respondents to a survey done ahead of Tuesday’s presidential primary have bought into the false notion that Obama worships Allah, Public Policy Polling reported Monday. Some 36% said they weren’t sure."

Maybe they caught it and edited it?

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,695 posts)
22. "Maybe they caught it and edited it?"
Tue Mar 13, 2012, 08:36 AM
Mar 2012

They did. The original post here says:

A stunning 66% of Mississippi respondents to a survey done ahead of Tuesday’s presidential primary have bought into the false notion that Obama worships Allah, Public Policy Polling reported Monday. Some 36% said they weren’t sure.


Which leaves a negative number for the percent of people who are sure that Obama is not Muslim.

Best wishes.

JaneFordA

(141 posts)
12. Speaking of fraud...
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 04:09 PM
Mar 2012

... why do these states with such large segments of African-Americans sport such statistics? There has to be intimidation and fraud pervading every strata of government in all of them--because there's no way a correct sampling of state demographics could support such conclusions.

I think it's time for some Special Prosecutors to start nosing around...

marmar

(77,106 posts)
13. This poll was of Republican voters....................
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 04:36 PM
Mar 2012

...... there probably weren't too many African Americans in the sample group.

cstanleytech

(26,344 posts)
21. What I would find interesting would be to find out where they get most of their news.
Tue Mar 13, 2012, 12:30 AM
Mar 2012

I would be willing to lay down some hard cash that those polled who believe he is a muslim either dont read or listen to the news or if they do its from Fox News or someone like Rush Limbaugh and or Glenn Beck.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
18. Am much as I hate buying into the right-wing portrayal of liberals hating America,
Tue Mar 13, 2012, 12:00 AM
Mar 2012

conservatives like these surveyed kinda make me feel disgusted with this country sometimes. It's as if they feel entitled to the White House, and don't want anyone different than themselves to be the leader of the free world. All of this is an impediment to progress.

 
19. What? No birther Shit?
Tue Mar 13, 2012, 12:19 AM
Mar 2012

(Couldn't get either link to work. I think it's on my end, though.) It's just surpising that St. Orly wasn't mentioned!

 

happyslug

(14,779 posts)
24. In both States most Voters still register as Democrats, then vote GOP for State and National Offices
Tue Mar 13, 2012, 09:44 AM
Mar 2012

Last edited Tue Mar 13, 2012, 11:26 AM - Edit history (1)

Thus the GOP tend to be even to the right of most other Conservatives in those same states. Last year, for the first time since Reconstruction, the GOP won the State Legislature of Alabama. That is how strong the Democratic party is at the local level in both states, until 2010 the Democratic Party controlled at least one branch of the Alabama Legislature.

http://blog.al.com/live/2010/11/republicans_historic_alabama_majority.html
http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=525539

Gives you an idea of who is a Republican in the South, people to the RIGHT of George Wallace (i.e. view George Wallace as to liberal).

Speaking of George Wallace, in the last two elections he ran and won the Governorship of Alabama (1975 and 1983), Wallace LOST the majority of white votes, he won those elections by winning over 90% of the African-American Votes. i.e. he was to far to the LEFT of most White Voters of Alabama.

Just a background on how far to the Right one has to be to be a member of the GOP in Alabama and Mississippi.

Evasporque

(2,133 posts)
25. NPR had a piece on that this morning...complete with idiot moron Republican voters...
Tue Mar 13, 2012, 10:02 AM
Mar 2012

One woman said the country shouldn't be under Muslim leadership....and a old guy believes Obama can't be President because both parents weren't native born citizens...

holy crap are these people really that effing ignorant?

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