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A new poll shows the reach of the “birther” movement within the GOP:
On President Barack Obama’s birthday, a new CNN/Opinion Research released Wednesday shows 41 percent of Republicans believe Obama was “probably” or “definitely” born in another country.
The poll of 1,018 adults shows 27 percent of Americans believe the president was “probably” or “definitely” born in another country, compared with 71 percent who think he was born in the United States.
Among the 285 self-identified Republicans polled, however, the percentage who think Obama was born outside of the country spikes to 41 percent, with 57 percent believing he was born in the United States.
Nineteen percent of independents think Obama was “probably” or “definitely” born in another country, as do 15 percent of Democrats. CNN/Opinion Research surveyed 398 independents and 335 Democrats for the poll.
A certificate of live birth from the state of Hawaii confirms that Wednesday is indeed the president’s 49th birthday spent as a natural-born American citizen, yet the so-called “birther” conspiracy theory that he was born in Kenya or another country has persisted since the 2008 campaign.
Click here to read more.Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh floated the theory during his show Tuesday, mentioning that the next day was the president’s birthday, though he hasn’t “seen any proof of that.”
Someone please remind me…..what is the benefit of turning the political process into something no sane person would want to get involved in?
Why is the Republican leadership continuing down this rod?
It is an attempt to drive voter turnout down due to the general disgust.
Also an attempt to continuously classify our president as “an other” not of “our ilk”.
So in a year where the right is more motivated to vote due to a plethora of reasons and piñatas(see movie Three Amigos), it makes sense to drive the overall numbers down.
These people are set in their stance who you can’t argue with as they came to their conclusions based on something other than facts, so facts will not work in changing their minds or attitudes.
They are enlightened and we are just ignorant to the “truth”.
Be they birther or truther they get a great false sense of superiority, being in the know and not blinded like us suckers.
This is just another sign of America in Retrograde and a concerted effort by the far right to bring about the De-Enlightenment.
Strict Constitutional Constructionists trying to reconstruct our Constitution…we are through the looking glass.
I’m not an expert statistician. But there are 55 million registered republicans. For a phone survey to have a 95% confidence level, and a confidence interval of 5, it seems to require a sample space of more that 384. So, 285 appears not to be statistically significant.
So this story about birther nut-heads taking over the Republican party may be more or less garbage. A better statistician needs to look hard at this.
olharl
I think there are several polls that have been released recently, generally they are coming up with pretty similar numbers, and I have yet to see one with any outliers.
There must be something about human nature that makes many choose to focus on silly, inconsequential issues over real problems. I don’t think this is something new, as politics has always been a rather nasty business.. I do hate to see our problems getting worse, though. We as a nation are acting like addicts who find every reason in the world not to talk about what really ails us, or to place blame on unimportant factors. And like an addict we will probably have to bottom out before we can address the real problems.
Bebe99
In my sad opinion we have bottomed out so to speak.
I truly believe that we will no longer be the superpower we once were.
I also think that the unemployment numbers will continue on like this for a long time to come.
I hope I am wrong, and I don’t go through my day acting like this is the case.
But deep down I worry it is true.
Umm, look. I believe that Birthers and Truthers BOTH fell from the same “goofyturd” tree.
And landed on their heads.
BUT it’s a CNN/Opinion Research poll. Come on!! About as scientific as a Sean Hannity poll.
LMAO
Jim_M:
“BUT it’s a CNN/Opinion Research poll. Come on!! About as scientific as a Sean Hannity poll.
LMAO”
Why is a CNN poll unscientific?
Please Rabiner.
It’s slanted as far left as Fox is right. And their both garbage.
Jim_M:
How about you look at the cross tabs to see if they’re skewed in one way or another. Simply dismissing a poll because you don’t like the results is the height of ignorance.
And it’s ‘they’re’ not ‘their’.
And Sean Hannity polls are specifically not scientific and should be specified, Fox News polls are scientific although sometimes uses questionable sampling sizes between Democrats, Republicans, and Independents (sometimes they over represent Republicans which skews the results significantly)
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