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Poll: 1 in 10 Get Obama's Religion Wrong
AP via SFGate ^ | 3/27/8

Posted on 03/27/2008 1:54:22 PM PDT by SmithL

One in 10 voters believes Barack Obama is Muslim, a mistaken impression that lingers across party lines, a poll showed Wednesday.

Fourteen percent of Republicans, 10 percent of Democrats and 8 percent of independents mistakenly think he is Muslim, according to a survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. Just over half of each group correctly identified him as Christian, while about a third said they don't know his religion.

The false rumor that the Democratic presidential candidate and Illinois senator is Muslim has been fanned on the Internet and conservative talk radio.

It has persisted despite the recent controversy over divisive remarks by his longtime pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Those saying they have heard a lot about Wright's comments are about as likely as others to say they think Obama is Muslim, the poll showed.

Conservatives, less educated voters and white evangelical Protestants are likelier to believe Obama is Muslim, as are people from the South, the Midwest and rural areas, the poll showed. Nearly a quarter of white Democrats with unfavorable views of Obama say he is Muslim though overall, blacks are about as likely as whites to hold the misconception.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008polls; asspressbias; hussein; husseinobama; jeremiahwright; obamaandgod; obamarama; obamasama; osamabama; trop; wrightwingconspiracy
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1 posted on 03/27/2008 1:54:23 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

The other nine correctly identified his religion as

“Blame Whitey”


2 posted on 03/27/2008 1:55:08 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: SmithL
Anyone who thinks Obama is a Muslim is either retarded or had tin foil on their head on a regular basis.

There is a better chance that he is a Marxist Leninist.

3 posted on 03/27/2008 1:58:09 PM PDT by Clemenza (I Live in New Jersey for the Same Reason People Slow Down to Look at Car Crashes)
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To: SmithL

How about we just call him... abomination of desolation?

He uses religion as a cover... he is his own religion.

(cue Cake ‘Comfort Eagle’)

http://www.centerfeud.com/centerfeud/2008/03/obama-building.html


4 posted on 03/27/2008 2:00:19 PM PDT by AliVeritas
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To: MrB
He is a Muslim. Where is his baptismal certificate and why doesn't he put it up on his Presidential webpage?

If B. Hussein Obama really is a Christian than he would be regarded as an apostate under the Muslim religion and would be put to death if practible. Are there any exceptions to the Muslim apostate rule? I don't know of any. Ibn Warriq (a pseudonym) has to continually watch his back as he is regarded as an apostate.

5 posted on 03/27/2008 2:00:32 PM PDT by Stepan12 ( "We are all girlymen now." Conservative reaction to Ann Coulter's anti PC joke)
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To: SmithL; rmlew; Clemenza; Cacique; Jeff Head; JACKRUSSELL
Fourteen percent of Republicans, 10 percent of Democrats and 8 percent of independents mistakenly think he is Muslim,

Well in Indonesia where he grew up, the law says if your father is Mulsim then so are you.

6 posted on 03/27/2008 2:01:00 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: MrB

One in ten get it wrong? Who cares? 9 of 10 get it Wright.


7 posted on 03/27/2008 2:01:49 PM PDT by Melinda
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To: SmithL

Obama may as well be a Muslim. His ‘church’ teaches as much hate as any mosque.


8 posted on 03/27/2008 2:02:51 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: SmithL

Wonder how that happened what with his connections to Muslim mass-murderers in Kenya and his 20 year association with a “Church” that is anti-semitic, believes in a black Jesus who was a victim of Roman apartheid, and believes in a god that must destroy all whites to create a black world.

Maybe because Obama won’t address these issues?

Or maybe Obama is just a typical white person?


9 posted on 03/27/2008 2:03:58 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: SmithL
Here it is:

The truth about Black Liberation Theology and the trinity Church

10 posted on 03/27/2008 2:05:05 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: SmithL

One in 10 voters believes Barack Obama is Muslim....

And who’s fault is that?....


11 posted on 03/27/2008 2:08:58 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Melinda
9 of 10 get it Wright.

Oh, very good, Melinda.
< applause >

12 posted on 03/27/2008 2:09:49 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: SmithL

And the AP knows that Obama is not a Muslim? How do they know this?

Obama most recently declared that “I have NEVER been a Muslim.” That is a flat out lie. He was born to a Muslim father, had a Muslim stepfather, attended school in Indonesia registered as a Muslim, and attended a mosque there as well.

The fact that he refuses to say “I was born and spent my childhood as a Muslim but then repudiated Islam and became a convert to Christianity” is a pretty strong indication that he is continuing to lie.

The fact that his Muslim relatives and connections in Kenya welcomed him, and dressed him in Muslim garb, and the fact that Muslim groups in America strongly support him, suggest that they know something that AP refuses to admit—that he is still a Muslim, and that he has assured them he is not apostate.

Do we know this for sure? Perhaps not. But we also don’t know for sure that he is NOT a Muslim, since he has proven himself to be a serial liar on this and other matters of importance.


13 posted on 03/27/2008 2:10:02 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: SmithL
It would be a shame if he lost the election based on this misconception.

I would rather he lose the election because he is to the left of Marx.

14 posted on 03/27/2008 2:10:07 PM PDT by AreaMan
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To: Stepan12
"One in 10 voters believes Barack Obama is Muslim, a mistaken impression that lingers across party lines..."



If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck.......
15 posted on 03/27/2008 2:10:23 PM PDT by shibumi (".....panta en pasin....." - Origen)
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To: AliVeritas

I’ve always used ObamaNATION of ISLAM myself....as the tie that binds him to Calypso Louis Farrakhan should be duly noted from time to time.

He’s got his endorsement after all. :)

And how fitting...a cult of Islam, much like his own hate-filled “minister” has hijacked Christianity!


17 posted on 03/27/2008 2:12:33 PM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing-----Edmund Burke)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Hes just your “typical” America hateing,Blame someone else for your trouble,Cracker hateing, half white guy with a muslim name, socialist.

Did I forget anything?


18 posted on 03/27/2008 2:12:41 PM PDT by southernerwithanattitude ({new and improved redneck})
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To: Jeff Head; SmithL
Obama's Religion
19 posted on 03/27/2008 2:12:51 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: SmithL

Well, judging from the “Reverend” Wright, whatever Obama is, he ain’t Christian.


20 posted on 03/27/2008 2:14:10 PM PDT by Little Ray (I'm a Conservative. But I can vote for John McCain. If I have to. I guess.)
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