Economist Poll Shows 17.5% Support for Ground Zero Mosque

Economist/ECR ^ | 19 Aug 10 | EC

[nysuperdoodle]

I have two quick thoughts here -

1. It's stunning to me that any President would support anything this unpopular less than 90 days from an election. Obama's showing just about the same level of disregard to his own party as he does Republicans. Maybe that old quote where Obama says he'll stand with the Muslims (Dreams of My Father?) was accurate.

2. It surprises me that even something as near-universally reviled as the Cordoba House project isn't enough to get Democrats to stand united against it - only 41% of Dems are against the project, while 28% are for it. Presumably the other 31% have put the matter completely out of their minds. Support of Obama is an exercise best practiced in ignorance.

[Blue Jays]

President 0bama’s ridiculous ego can never be underestimated.

[wayne_shrugged]

It’s sad when we Americans can only get a real “read” on our political situation from overseas — since the “liberals” have a lock on the propaganda machine that has become our “mainstream media.”

[Frantzie]

He is a Muslim but some idiots here say - oh he is an atheiest or marxist. WTF! >

[Deo confidimus]

Yeah, that poll had to be fixed. It’s percent of people supporting the mosque was pretty fishy. Way too high says I. But it’s good to know the no. is actually much smaller...yet, well, that might not help anything since important “higher ups” are totally for it...

[Frantzie]

Sad people pay monthly cable and sat TV bills to support the propaganda machine. They willpay for it along with their kids and grandkids. People are so stupid.

[Darkwolf377]

Obama is CLUELESS.

That’s really all I think about when I see or hear him.

[cicero2k]

17.5% approval for a policy Obama is in favor of?

His legacy.

[bigbob]

So in other words, it’s time for Obama to double-down on this. Maybe call a press conference to re-iterate his support, you know, to make it perfectly clear.

Wonder if they allow beer at mosques? A beer summit would surely be in order...

[airborne]

Union thugs, welfare freeloaders, illegal aliens and government workers.

[keats5]

The way I see it, there are four possibilities:

Obama is

1) stupid;
2) detached from reality (mentally ill);
3) has no desire to ever be president again and has no party loyalty; or
3) has no intention of allowing future elections.

[demkicker]

It's BO's Marxist way of doing things - it's his way of putting 'his boot to our necks'. He doesn't give a damn what the American people want and we have many glaring examples to prove it:

*His ridiculous Stimulus pkg
*Healthcare debacle
*Auto Company Takeover
*His delays to clean up the oil spill
*Imposing a Drilling Moratorium
*His protection of union thugs that intimidated voters
*Directing his Atty General to fight the AZ law cracking down on illegal immigrants

I could go on and on, but what's the point?

[Diogenesis]

Like his fellow SOA, trained only to fly, but
not land 747s on 911, Obama was trained to crash and
destroy America — and he is succeeding and in
the tube 5 x 5.

[VOA]

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[adm5]

So in other words, it’s time for Obama to double-down on this. Maybe call a press conference to re-iterate his support, you know, to make it perfectly clear. Wonder if they allow beer at mosques? A beer summit would surely be in order...

I guess we know who will be guest-hosting for Regis soon...

[sportutegrl]

You don’t even have a link to the actual poll on your blog? I want to see the poll.

[nysuperdoodle]

Here’s the poll link you requested. It’s 43 pages of pdf:

http://media.economist.com/images/pdf/TabReport08192010.pdf

It’s still on the blog at the bottom of the post