Nearly 1 in 5 Americans Think Obama is Muslim

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CBS News

Americans increasingly are convinced - incorrectly - that President Obama is a Muslim, and a growing number are thoroughly confused about his religion.

Nearly one in five people, or 18 percent, said they think Mr. Obama is Muslim, up from the 11 percent who said so in March 2009, according to a poll released Thursday. The proportion who correctly say he is a Christian is down to just 34 percent.

The largest share of people, 43 percent, said they don't know his religion, an increase from the 34 percent who said that in early 2009.

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In a separate poll by Time magazine/ABT SRBI conducted Monday and Tuesday - after Mr. Obama's comments about the mosque - 24 percent said they think he is Muslim, 47 percent said they think he is Christian and 24 percent didn't know or didn't respond



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Good work Faux and RW talkers & blogs! :sarcasm:

[Downwinder]

1. How many think the world is flat or only 6,000 years old?

[CountAllVotes]

2. a birther I ran into recently

was saying that Obama was a "Muslin" and that he was planning on forcing the kids in public schools to learn how to speak "Muslin" as the idiot called the Arabic language.

He then went on to reveal more refined stupidity in his persona claiming that Obama was not born in the USA. :dunce:

Where the hell do these idiots come from? Birthers from HELL IMO!

:kick:

[DesertFlower]

15. OMG.

:rofl:

[TheMadMonk]

3. Perhaps more accurately, 1 in 5 will say whatevever they believe...

...will put him in the worst possible light regardless of what they know to be the truth.

If the question was about his child molestation habits, I strongly susspect that much the same 20% would respond negatively.

[tavalon]

23. What is so damn awful about being a Muslim?

That's like saying Christianity is bad because Timothy McVeigh blew up a federal building? Both events had plenty to do with fundamentalist extremism and little to do with religion.

[No Elephants]

31. Same thing I thought as soon as I saw the headline.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

4. Gotta say that I am impressed that CBS put "incorrectly" in the first sentence ...

In the headline would have been the ethical and factually correct place to put it, but CBS must be new at this whole journalism "thing."

(*if* there is an afterlife, Murrow, Cronkite and the boys are getting their boots ready ready to kick a whole lot of ass when this generation of reporter-wannabes start dying off).

[No Elephants]

30. Murrow and Cronkite were newsmen who were onTV. We shall not see their like again.

After them came TV "personalities" who can barely read the news off a teleprompter, let alone dig up a story that no one has "planted" with them. Maybe a hair or two better than Ted Baxter (Mary Tyler Moore).

[niceypoo]

5. Republicans are brainwashed fools

[PSPS]

6. The same 17 percenters who comprise the bush cultists.

[sofa king]

13. Usually, it's 23%.

Which is well within the margin of error in the Time poll mentioned in the article, where 24% think he's a Muslim. I'm sorry: "Muslin." It's quite funny how often that figure shows up as the "doofus" answer in all sorts of different polls--and it's always the same kind of doofus spitting back the propaganda. Do you think George Bush is doing a good job? 23% yes. Is America ready for a black President? 23% no. And so on.

But right-wing authoritarians are extremely distrustful, hostile to social out-groups, and easily confused. I'm willing to bet the results of a phone survey could easily be thrown off just by outsourcing the calls to an Indian call center, or re-wording the questions to a higher comprehension level. So it's not too surprising to see the "doofus" answer fluctuate considerably between similar polls.

Just so long as we never forget that they exist, and that they will always line up on election day, determined to vote against their own best interests every time.

[saigon68]

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[lonestarnot]

7. Yeah so 1 in 5 Americans is a nutty motherfucker. What else you got/have?

[still_one]

8. It's not just fox and the MSM, it also represents the ignorance and stupidity

of 25% of the population

[onpatrol98]

9. Why do they keep asking this question?

Of the possible questions to ask...I wonder why this one over and over again?

[truthisfreedom]

10. Yeah, they never polled to see if bush was a satanist.

[activa8tr]

24. If they had, 50% would have agreed that he WAS a

Satanist, and the other 50% would say they didn't know or were not sure.

But 30% would say that there's NOTHING WRONG with Satanism, per se.

[EFerrari]

20. Because it's racist code for he's still black?

[Xenotime]

28. Exactly.

[savalez]

11. Why is this question even being asked?

[IrishEyes]

12. I was proud of my friend's brother

Her family is all southern, conservative republicans and they live in the bible belt. Their mom was talking about how Obama was a muslim. He said "Obama is not a muslim but what would it matter if he were. Being a christian shouldn't be a requirement to be president." His mom didn't know how to answer him. My friend's brother does care about politics but he sees through the lies that the right wing tells people. He is to young to vote but he will be old enough in 2012.

[bc3000]

14. It's called the republican base. The same idiots who supported Bush on every poll.

[superconnected]

16. Ya means he aint a muzlim? Well gosh dawrn, what iz he then?

Oh yahr, he's soshalist and wharnts to distroy famlays with gay mariage. He even try ter take away muh gun and see what I doo's to that thar muzlim.

[CountAllVotes]

22. why hez a muslin you fool

you spelt that werd muslim wrong, it is muslin like that cloth ya fool! :sarcasm: :rofl:

[soleiri]

17. I've only come across one person

in my personal life who thought he was a Muslim.
she's not a teabagger or conservative.
She's Latina (as I am) and educated, but not political.

Somehow, we got on the topic of President Obama,
and she was very complimentary, and then in a whisper she states, "did you know he's Muslim?"
I leaned in and said, "No I didn't, because he's not. People say he is, but they're lying.
He's stated that he's Christian, not that it matters to me. I would have voted for him if were Muslim."
Then I went on some tangent about "others" blah, blah, blah.
But basically she went away agreeing that people were telling lies about him and wondered why they did that.

It was an odd conversation, because before that I had assumed that everyone who thought that was a right wing nut job asshat piece of crap loser dumbass hating America and our freedom fuckface.

[trusty elf]

18. Rarely is the question asked....

[dimbear]

21. Be honest and candid. Sometimes when they call during dinner

or too late or too early, don't you just try to screw with their heads? As in, you got me up to ask me that? OK, then, he's a Pastafarian.

[WillParkinson]

25. Honestly, does it matter?

Choice of religion is NOT supposed to be a litmus test required for service so these people need to back off.

[dem mba]

26. I imagine this is the exact same 18-24%

who still supported/approved of Bush in the waning days of 2008.

[SpankMe]

27. "a 24-hour noise box committed to presenting the president in a false light."

In other words, Fox News.

[MARALE]

29. I think this is partially racist

People would not think he is "Muslin" if he were a white male. I had a friend before the election that said that she did not think America would elect a Muslim president, an i said he is not Muslim, you should not pay attention to those racist emails. she said she thought she heard it on the news. I shook my head and said, no, because he is a christian. She was kind of embarrassed that she got pulled into the hate talk.

[pampango]

32. CSM: it may be because he does not make it as central a part of his political activities as did

his immediate predecessors. And that could be a problem, because US voters generally like their politicians to be overtly religious.

But remember, 82 percent of respondents here correctly knew that Obama is not a Muslim, so it is possible to make too much of this. Plus, the Pew survey report is 38 pages long, and the Muslim question takes up only a small part of it. Reading the poll through, two far more consequential points emerge:

It’s no surprise that according to Pew results 69 percent of self-identified white evangelical Protestants said they were Republicans. Large majorities of evangelicals have voted GOP for years. But Pew also found that a plurality of mainstream Protestants, 49 percent, now say they are Republicans. (Forty-one percent said they were Democrats.) That’s a GOP gain of four percentage points since the last presidential election.

Fully 50 of non-Hispanic Catholics now say they identify with Republicans, up from 41 percent two years ago. The GOP is even making gains among Jewish voters, who have long been reliably Democratic. One-third of those who said they were Jewish also said they were Republicans, up from 20 percent in 2008.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2010/0819/Why-do-1-in-5-Americans-think-President-Obama-is-a-Muslim