Pew Poll: Republicans claiming Obama is a Muslim doubled since 2008

[Hissyspit]

Source: Pew Research / Raw Story

Poll: Republicans claiming Obama is a Muslim doubled since 2008

By David Edwards
Thursday, July 26, 2012 14:19 EDT

Conservative Republicans who believe President Barack Obama is a Muslim have more than doubled since 2008, according to a survey on religion and politics released on Thursday.

The Pew Research Center found that 34 percent of conservative Republicans now believe Obama, who is a Christian, is actually a Muslim, compared with the 16 percent that believed that in 2008. When moderate and liberal Republicans are included, the number who believed that the president a Muslim still nearly doubled from 16 percent in 2008 to 30 percent in 2012.

Among all voters, only 49 percent were able to correctly identify that the president is a Christian.

Sixty-five percent of those who incorrectly believed Obama is a Muslim were not comfortable with his religion. However, voters who knew that he is a Christian said they were comfortable with his religion by a margin of 82 percent to 12 percent.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/26/poll-republicans-claiming-obama-is-muslim-doubled-since-2008/

[AtomicKitten]

1. I don't think they believe that for even a nanosecond.

I believe the nutters are simply SAYING it for partisan purposes.

[arcane1]

2. I agree

And half of those don't even know what a Muslim is.

[KansDem]

6. And I'll bet half of those don't know what a Muslin is...

[asjr]

8. Lol, perhaps their wives would know. This is

simply a way to not say he is black. That's the way they cover it up.

[DCBob]

4. yes indeed.. its a "strategic" response from the RW liars.

and the media will jump all over it giving it credibility.

Sickening.

[GoCubsGo]

3. 100% of those who believe he is Muslim had conniptions over Rev. Wright.

The stupid. It burns.

[Nine]

18. +1

[elleng]

5. Let them watch this.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021026122

[xtraxritical]

7. Republicans in Congress are leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood, spread the word.

[heaven05]

14. good for you

[chrismiller8888]

19. Yes, great idea. I will spread unjustified lies about republicans.

How unbelievably demented are you to actually believe this is true? It is people like you that drive smart people away from voting democrat and attract more stupid people.

[aggiesal]

9. And all them say that ...

Obama is a follower of christian Rev. Wright.

So which is it?

Is he a muslin? Or a christian follower of Rev. Wright?

Wait, did I hear heads exploding?

[elbloggoZY27]

10. BA BA Looo!!!!

Who really listens to the GOP in general and their enabler FOX News.

[Jamaal510]

11. For a party that supposedly touts "freedom",

many of the GOPhers sure do care a lot about what religion somebody else is.

[Zoeisright]

12. Poll: Repukes getting stupider every day.

Nothing new there.

[heaven05]

13. ???

for a few weeks in 2008-9 I was a contented man. It seemed to me that Americans(all) had finally put a certain portion of our history to rest. But a quiet voice told me don't jump the gun and my inclination was correct. A large segment of this society is still racist as hell, all the way UP to the rethug challenger(anglo-saxon comment among many others . Can't forget skin color for one moment and try and look at the good this POTUS has tried to accomplish. I am sick and tired of the ignorance and outright stupidity of moderate, liberal and conservative REPUBLICANS. GROW UP AND JOIN THE 21ST CENTURY!

[Zambero]

15. Wingnuts had Obama as a Christian in 2008

With a big bad scary black Christian preacher. That didn't quite lose the election for him, so very soon after the '08 election the newly-annointed Teabagger Party (formerly known as the GOP) regrouped and decided to assign a new scary religious affiliation, along with a fresh new outbreak of birtherism.

[Odin2005]

16. "Muslim" = dog whistle for "n***er".

[lunatica]

17. That would be Orly Taitz and then Donald Trump

That's doubled right there.