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Poll Finds 23 Percent of Texans Think Obama is Muslim

Posted by samzenpus on from the the-world-is-flat dept.

A University of Texas poll has found that 23 percent of Texans are convinced that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is a Muslim. Only 45 percent of the people polled correctly identified Obama as a Protestant Christian. Nationwide, the number of people who believe in the "Secret Muslim Conspiracy" is about the same as those who believe that the moon landing was faked (5-10 percent), which makes the high numbers in Texas unusual.

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  1. Re:And even if he was by PhasmatisApparatus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Because if he's lying about something simple like religion, it makes you wonder what else he is lying about.
    What, you expected a bigoted response? Sometimes explaining away the other side as racist/foolish/bigots doesn't work.

  2. Please. by mbstone · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If the "bailout bill" hadn't passed, there still would have been a stock market correction, and we taxpayers would still have our $700B instead of it being used for executive retreats, shareholder dividends, and mergers.