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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSome Americans Think Romney Deserves Credit for Killing Osama bin Laden
A short link from Reason:Public Policy Polling has a new poll (pdf) out of Ohio showing Obama with his biggest lead since May. Given how hard it would be for Mitt Romney to win the White House without winning Ohio, thats a big deal.
But a secondary finding in the poll has gotten a lot of attention. PPP asked voters who they thought deserved more credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden: Obama or Romney. 63 percent said Obama, 31 percent werent sure, and 6 percent said Romney.
The results for Republican voters were even more astonishing. 38 percent said Obama, 47 percent werent sure, and 15 percent said Romney. What the heck is going on?
But a secondary finding in the poll has gotten a lot of attention. PPP asked voters who they thought deserved more credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden: Obama or Romney. 63 percent said Obama, 31 percent werent sure, and 6 percent said Romney.
The results for Republican voters were even more astonishing. 38 percent said Obama, 47 percent werent sure, and 15 percent said Romney. What the heck is going on?
Someone linked a similar article the other day that generated a bit of discussion; I'm tossing this one out as well because it's got a link to the polling data proper. It also ends with a link to an interesting and pretty lengthly WaPo article about the psychology of political polling around objective facts; I would have posted that one directly but its headline would probably derail the discussion.
(And also, that sort of result in a poll is ridiculous enough that it needs to be emphasized. Gah.)
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Some Americans Think Romney Deserves Credit for Killing Osama bin Laden (Original Post)
Posteritatis
Sep 2012
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Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)1. Sour Grapes.
It really sticks in their craw that Obama was the one that got Bin Laden. It's just pure bitterness and nothing more.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)2. A stew of bitterness and stupidity n/t
KansDem
(28,498 posts)3. So, a more than a third of respondents...
...either didn't know if it was Obama or Romney or thought it was only Romney?
Obama or Romney. 63 percent said Obama, 31 percent werent sure, and 6 percent said Romney. That's 37%!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the straps"
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)4. One of the comments in the linked WaPo article kinda sums that up:
"I know what the truth is, but dammit, I'm going to respond 'My Man' to all the positive questions, and 'Their Man' to all the negative questions."
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)5. Exactly it's not ignorance, it's willful ignorance. n/t