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It should be noted that an equally disturbing proportion of Democrats were willing to entertain the idea that the Bush administration somehow "knew" about the 9/11 attacks: Thirty-five percent of Democrats asserted that Bush "knew" and another 26% were "not sure" in a 2007 Rasmussen poll.
The poor phrasing of the Rasmussen question muddled two different ideas: The harsh but not paranoid view that Bush negligently failed to heed intelligence warnings -- and the truly loony paranoid view that Bush was somehow complicit in the attacks.

Excellent point about why that survey cannot be directly compared with the survey indicating the dismayingly high prevalence of "birther" wingnuttery within the GOP.

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It’s going to get alot higher.