Can't Believe This!
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This kind of puts it in perspective a little
http://www.politico.com/blogs/be…
According to Pew (.pdf), about 10 percent of Americans believe Obama's a Muslim; other surveys have found higher numbers.
One relevant piece of context: Large minorities of Americans consistently say they hold wildly out-of-the-mainstream views, often specifically discredited beliefs. In some cases, those views should make them pretty profoundly alienated from one party or the other.
For instance:
22 percent believe President Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance.
30 percent believe Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
23 percent believe they've been in the presence of a ghost.
18 percent believe the sun revolves around the Earth.What this means: Obama may well be elected president with a substantial minority of the citizens despising him and convinced that his beliefs are irreconciliably foreign to theirs. Which, after all, is the current state of affairs. It's only that the people who believe those things about Bush and the people who believe those things about Obama live in different parts of the country.