[Tex-Con-Man]

In the battle for the election-deciding, ill-informed independents, democrats often successfully employ the “don't vote for the crazy nutters on the right” strategy.

Republicans avoided the issue precisely because, to embrace it would have helped the democrats.

So yes, democrats would have benefited from birtherism had the Republicans run on the issue.

[edge919]

So yes, democrats would have benefited from birtherism had the Republicans run on the issue.

The governor-elect of Georgia, Republicn Nathan Deal, sent a letter to President Stitch Lips asking him to resolve the controversy and release a legal birth certificate. This was well-reported in the news. Your theory fails.