Birthers Rarely Leave U.S., Less Likely To Vote... more

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http://www.hunch.com/

Hunch, a new website that helps people make decisions based on survey questions, found some interesting stuff when they crunched the numbers on site users who described themselves as "birthers".

Asked a series of political questions, 12 percent of Hunch users said they did not believe the president was born in the United States. (About 2,200 Hunch users answered the question.) The Hunch team decided to see how they responded to other queries.

According to their answers, birthers are less educated, watch more TV, and read fewer books than non-birthers. Some 43 percent of them have never traveled outside of their home country. They're 24 percent more likely to speak only a single language. They are 63% less likely to have ever owned a passport.

A third of them didn't vote in the last presidential election. Forty-four percent of them believe that the Big Bang didn't really happen and 47 percent don't believe in global warming. Birthers are also 19 percent more likely to believe in UFOs and alien visits to earth and 50 percent more likely to believe in alien abductions. Interestingly, birthers are 115 percent more likely to think that human beings are naturally evil rather than good.

This sample, of course, is small and unscientific.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/29/birthers-rarely-leave-us_n_339104.html

[ej510]

1. Hop on the idiot express.

[treestar]

2. No surprise there

If it's on TV, it must be true! That crowd will believe anything, so long as they want to believe it.

[BadgerKid]

3. Looks like self-imposed ignorance.

I had thought birthers liked to argue for its own sake, but I'm reconsidering my position.

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4. Yes.

They really are that stupid!