Re: Can this be right?

On 2011-02-16 17:18:03 -0800, Carbon <nobrac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
43% seems awful high...

For what?!

"In a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, 58 percent said Mr. Obama was born in the United States. That leaves a significant minority who said they thought he was born in another country (20 percent) or said they did not know (23 percent)."

http://goo.gl/jgXad


I don't find that too hard to believe. 23% who are so fed up with hearing about it or don't care or just want everyone to shut up about it or are pedantic enough to answer "I don't know" regarding issues about which they honestly don't have any factual evidence seems quite reasonable.

If we assume 50/50 Dems/Reps in the country (seems pretty close), and say maybe 1-in-10 of the Rs either (a) latched on ot the Kenya thing or (b) aren't sure whether or not Hawaii counts as "another country" (have you TALKED to The People, lately?!?! <G>), gives about 20%.

Then we are gracious enough to recognize that it's not nice to make fun of the retarded kids, so we don't point out NYT's 100 - 20 - 23 = 58... ;^D


Misc "yeah, yeah -- I know. But who can resist poking fun at the NYT?!?!"

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