‘the challenges to his eligibility helped him with undecided voters more than it hurt him.’
Kindly produce a link that is FACT not opinion-based.
‘That’s why he wanted to keep the issue alive rather than resolving it.’
A flat out lie. He tried to resolve it with a disputed COLB, and did his best to brazen it out. When Trump forced the issue Obama’s credibility eroded and the # of people who believed he was foreign born began a moderate but steady climb. In a panic, he produced a forged LFBC.
Now take your liberal talking points to a liberal site. Leftists are the only ones who still believe them.
I believe its still true that in the United States of America and especially here on Free Republic a person is allowed to express an opinion.
It is my personal opinion that the natural born citizen issue was used by the Obama campaign to try to get votes.
When the campaign produced the first copy of the Certification of Live Birth in June of 2008, they placed the digital image of that document on the “Obama For America” [campaign] web site and they created a new, special [campaign] web page called “Fight the Smears” to show the birth certificate image.
They also sold birth certificate tee shirts and coffee mugs with the image of the birth certificate on them.
http://gawker.com/5803136/obama-campaign-selling-official-birth-certificate-shirts
http://www.zazzle.com/obama+birth+certificate+mugs