Poll: At least 20% of Americans are stupid

[unhappycamper]

Poll: Growing number incorrectly call Obama Muslim
By The Associated Press
Thursday, August 19th, 2010 -- 8:03 am

Americans increasingly are convinced — incorrectly — that President Barack 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 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.

The survey, conducted by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center and its affiliated Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, is based on interviews conducted before the controversy over whether Muslims should be permitted to construct a mosque near the World Trade Center site. Obama has said he believes Muslims have the right to build an Islamic center there, though he's also said he won't take a position on whether they should actually build it.

In a separate poll by Time magazine/ABT SRBI conducted Monday and Tuesday — after 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.

[Solly Mack]

1. That's not stupid...that's willful ignorance.

[mmonk]

2. +1

Purposely stupid in order to be rabid and vapid.

[City Lights]

11. !

:thumbsup:

[bunkerbuster1]

3. If by "stupid" you mean "assholish," yeah.

[HughBeaumont]

4. .

Who can even be around right wingers? I'd just as soon as talk to a corncob. It'd be about as intelligent.

[HughBeaumont]

5. Dupe, even though it bears repeating.

[old mark]

6. They really don't want to know anything positive...they want to hate and obstruct,

and they don't care about reality, only their own bigoted ideas...They probably LOVE Palin and that crowd.

Sadly, their votes count.

mark

[Ian David]

7. 50% of Americans have below-average intelligence. n/t

[whathehell]

12. Do you have a link for that? n/t

[unhappycamper]

14. Here ya go:

[Ian David]

15. Yes.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/average

[whathehell]

17. Bwahahahahahaha..

..Hillarious.:eyes:

[chelsea0011]

8. Not surprised at all. The President is visitin MV for vacation and

the local media interviewed a store that sells tee shirts and the owner said they weren't expecting to sell as many shirts as last year. He then pulled out one of their best sellers, a shirt with Bush on it saying that annoying refrain "miss me yet?" It has only been two years and people long for the good ole days of Bush. America is filled with idiots.

[HughBeaumont]

9. Anyone who misses Bush needs to be groinpunched. HARD.

In case they need to be reminded what his economic policies did to America.

[disillusioned73]

10. That # is wrong, what was the percentage that voted for

Palin/McCain?? 47-48%??

[howaboutme]

13. The public is willfully and woefully uninformed

I blame much of it on the obsession of the public with entertainment and celebrity - sports, TV, video games, and movies.

It is bad enough that these entities already profit enormously and pay exorbitant compensation, but why has our public policy been twisted so that we taxpayers are outrageously forced to subsidize them?

Here is an interesting test on news that someone sent me. Try it. I'd bet that most on DU would score far better than the public. http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/index.php

[5X]

16. Plus or minus 80 percent. n/t