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Poll: 31% of Republicans and tea partyers doubt Obama's citizenship
The Washington Post's Right Now ^ | May 7, 2010 | David Weigel

Posted on 05/07/2010 6:05:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Washington Post/ABC News poll includes another bite at the birther apple, asking whether Americans have "suspicions" or "solid evidence." Among all Americans, 68 percent say Obama was definitely born in the United states, while 14 percent speculate about another country and the rest don't know; asked whether it was "your best guess that Obama was born in the United States," the "yes" number rises to 77 percent.

So who are the "birthers"? Mostly Republicans and "very" conservative voters.

(CHART AT LINK)

Thirty-one percent of Republicans doubt Obama's citizenship; the doubters also include 31 percent of tea party movement supporters, 36 percent of very conservative voters, and 27 percent of somewhat conservatives. Every other subgroup is under 20 percent.

But at this point we could have predicted that -- birtherism has remained a stubborn belief in the conservative base, despite widespread denunciation from elite conservatives.(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Issues; Parties; Polls; State and Local
KEYWORDS: beckisabirther; birthcertificate; birthers; certifigate; dembirthers; naturalborncitizen; obama; obamaisabirther; obamanoncitizenissue; polls; rinobirhters; rinobirthers; teaparty
"Elite conservatives" is it? RINOs is what they probably mean, like Mitt, Juan and Linseed.
1 posted on 05/07/2010 6:05:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WOW - this means 69% are incapable of drawing logical conclusions from observed actions! Very scary indeed!


2 posted on 05/07/2010 6:09:18 PM PDT by J Edgar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
despite widespread denunciation from elite conservatives

(R - I - N - O's)
Why not check it out? Who knows? Maybe the birthers are right. What is there to lose?

3 posted on 05/07/2010 6:18:16 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I will submit that any evaluation of polling that contends 31% of Republicans and 31% of Tea Party supporters had the same response is bogus.


4 posted on 05/07/2010 6:21:19 PM PDT by frog in a pot (Wake up America! The Socialists are winning the long war against you and your Constitution!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; J Edgar
LTC. Lakin is supposed to be on CNN Anderson Cooper 360 at 10pm tonight. Watch, spread the word, and talk about it back here this weekend!

40 minutes and counting.

5 posted on 05/07/2010 6:22:28 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Hey, Barack "Hubris" Obama, $10 is all it would take, why spend millions to cover it up?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am SO tired of reading about doubts of his citizenship. That is not the issue. I am certain that he is a citizen of some sort even if he does not act like a patriotic one.

The main issue is whether he is a Natural Born Citizen, the second issue is to get an agreed-upon definition of that, and the third issue is to find some collection of individuals with the power and incentive to challenge him if he is not a Natural Born Citizen.

In my humble opinion we are stuck with him whatever he is until we can vote him out of there. And I hope that at that time we have enough of a country to recover.


6 posted on 05/07/2010 6:23:27 PM PDT by NCjim ("You can't pick up a turd by the clean end", Bob Lonsberry on Obamacare)
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He may have been born naturally and he may even be a citizen but a natural born citizen he is not.


7 posted on 05/07/2010 6:27:17 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
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To: J Edgar

Among these 69% are ALL of our PUB congress critters. Shameless!!


8 posted on 05/07/2010 6:31:43 PM PDT by 353FMG (Islam -- America's road to destruction.)
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To: RipSawyer

Obie is an NBC, A Natural Born Communist.


9 posted on 05/07/2010 6:32:52 PM PDT by rolling_stone (no more bailouts, the taxpayers are out of money!)
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To: J Edgar

agree.

if a parent of a child pursuing sports in high school has to provide a birth certificate,

why not the president of the united states?

/s


10 posted on 05/07/2010 6:35:10 PM PDT by ken21 (i am not voting for a rino-progressive.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Actually, he is an illegal alien....


11 posted on 05/07/2010 6:36:30 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; LucyT

No SPs or FINOs yet!!!


12 posted on 05/07/2010 6:58:05 PM PDT by danamco (")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How could any article on ‘birthers’ not report on the cause of ‘birthism’: Obama’s refusal to disclose his birth certificate. The whole issue would evaporate if Obama made such a simple move. The REAL issue is that Obama is hiding something. What is it?


13 posted on 05/07/2010 7:01:47 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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All he's gotta do is Show US the BC!!!

That and leave office immediately!!

14 posted on 05/07/2010 7:06:20 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:31 Behold, I am against you, O you most proud, said the Lord God of hosts.)
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To: J Edgar

Aww, geez, not this sh$te again.


15 posted on 05/07/2010 7:53:42 PM PDT by militanttoby
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To: J Edgar

oops j edgar, my previous post was directed at the article, not you. sorry.


16 posted on 05/07/2010 7:55:16 PM PDT by militanttoby
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To: militanttoby

Ok no problem here.


17 posted on 05/08/2010 9:04:22 PM PDT by J Edgar
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