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Rasmussen Poll: Few Would Vote for a Muslim President
Rasmussen Reports ^ | 09/25/2015

Posted on 09/25/2015 8:06:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson has been criticized by other candidates and the media for saying he could not support a Muslim for president of the United States. But guess what? Over half of U.S. voters agree.

Fifty-one percent (51%) of Likely U.S. Voters say they would not personally be willing to vote for a Muslim president. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 28% say they would be willing to support a Muslim in the White House. A sizable 20% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Fifty-two percent (52%) say most of their family, friends and co-workers also would not be willing to vote for a Muslim president. Only 15% say they would. Thirty-two percent (32%) are not sure.

By comparison, 78% said they could vote for a black president after Barack Obama clinched enough delegates to be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008.

Republicans are more than twice as likely as Democrats – 73% to 35% - to say they would not personally vote for a Muslim to be U.S. president. A plurality (48%) of voters not affiliated with either major party agrees.

The large number of undecideds suggests that many voters are unwilling to reveal their opinion on what is seen as a controversial topic.

Seventy-one percent (71%) of Americans think political correctness is a problem in America today. Seventy-three percent (73%) think Americans have to be careful not to say something politically incorrect to avoid getting in trouble.

(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bencarson; muslim; president
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1 posted on 09/25/2015 8:06:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Few Would Vote for a Muslim President

Over 50 million morons already did. Twice.

2 posted on 09/25/2015 8:07:03 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Today's Civil Rights movement: Black Lives Matter--unless they are cops.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Seventy-three percent (73%) think Americans have to be careful not to say something politically incorrect to avoid getting in trouble.


Anybody disagree about this????


3 posted on 09/25/2015 8:07:41 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SeekAndFind

The poll is too late. Obama was born and raised Muslim. Reverend Wrong has said it numerous times.


4 posted on 09/25/2015 8:07:53 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Obama never renounced Islam. He is Muslim.


5 posted on 09/25/2015 8:11:50 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Let he who pays no taxes also not vote.)
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To: SeekAndFind

That 28% are either liars or totally PC liberal Democrats with a few Moslems thrown in the mix.


6 posted on 09/25/2015 8:12:43 AM PDT by onyx
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To: Dilbert San Diego

What is wrong with the other 27%. Are the commissars in the HR departments and the willing snitches running the system?


7 posted on 09/25/2015 8:14:39 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Our founding fathers weren’t politically correct.


8 posted on 09/25/2015 8:14:41 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Chris Stevens won't be running for president.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is why Obama pretends to be a Christian.


9 posted on 09/25/2015 8:15:15 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: SeekAndFind

I heard some liberal pundit pontificate, and say it would be discriminatory to not elect a Muslim president, and that he thought we settled religious discrimination with the election of Kennedy in 1960, yadda, yadda, yadda.

So we may see a liberal talking point emerge, to say that electing a Muslim president would be just like when Kennedy was Catholic and elected president, in spite of controversies about his religion at that time.


10 posted on 09/25/2015 8:15:42 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SeekAndFind

Few would vote for a Muslim President.... if they knew.

But PC attitudes urge us to bend over backwards to accept “plausible deniability” and act as if we/they don’t know.

Only explanation for 2012.


11 posted on 09/25/2015 8:16:45 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SeekAndFind

I’d rather vote for a Scientologist.


12 posted on 09/25/2015 8:16:55 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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...at least not knowingly.
13 posted on 09/25/2015 8:17:45 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Beware the Wisconsin Weasel - GOPe Plan B)
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To: SeekAndFind

Answer to the question “Why does Barack Hussein Obama maintain that he is a Christian?”


14 posted on 09/25/2015 8:24:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

What idiot would vote for a potential Sharia lackey!!!


15 posted on 09/25/2015 8:24:46 AM PDT by ontap
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To: SeekAndFind

“Few” = Mulims that voted in the poll while taking breaks from clock / bomb building and plotting the destruction of the United States.


16 posted on 09/25/2015 8:24:54 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: SeekAndFind

I was watching the third episode of “The Bastard Executioner” last night. It will be the last time. In the episode they introduced a sensitive, gentle warrior Muslim who will fight the evil, brutal English Christians. Reeks of Hollywood sell-out fantasy.


17 posted on 09/25/2015 8:36:10 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: SeekAndFind

Islam isn’t a religion - it is a political movement dedicated to the overthrow of governments and nations.

And the US Constitution isn’t a suicide pact.

The Founders didn’t detail more safeguards because they never planned on the voting franchise being awarded to the bums, moochers and enemies of America.

And they never envisioned a time when those who did vote would be so foolish, uninformed and easily manipulated.


18 posted on 09/25/2015 8:43:26 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Proverbs 21:20 - The wise have stores of food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has)
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To: SeekAndFind

Shows how non thinking Democrats are as they already elected a muslim.


19 posted on 09/25/2015 8:55:54 AM PDT by nclaurel
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“Few Would Vote for a Muslim President ... ....A G A I N!!”


20 posted on 09/25/2015 9:11:12 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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