rssOnly 45 Percent of Arkansans Say Obama Was Born in America
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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Public Policy Polling dips into Arkansas, one of the few states where Barack Obama won fewer votes for president than John Kerry, and finds that only 45 percent of Arkansans are confident of the president’s citizenship. Thirty-one percent of them say he was born outside of the country; the rest aren’t sure.
As has been the case in other states, “birtherism” in Arkansas is largely a problem for white voters and conservative Republicans. Whites only believe that Obama was born in America by a seven-point margin, 41-34, while African-Americans believe it by a 57-point margin, 68-11. Fewer than one-quarter of Republicans are sure that Obama was born in America; 49 percent say he wasn’t. The numbers are actually lower among “conservatives,” 43 percent of whom say Obama wasn’t born in America. That’s understandable in Arkansas, one of the deep South states where most voters still belong to the Democratic Party while often splitting their ballot for federal offices.
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Pingback posted August 25, 2009 @ 1:39 pm
[...] in Washington, but rather from the deep desire of many New York Democrats to see him go away. Only 45 Percent of Arkansans Say Obama Was Born in America – washingtonindependent.com 08/25/2009 Public Policy Polling dips into Arkansas , one of the few [...]
Comment posted August 25, 2009 @ 6:20 pm
PPP are incurious idiot hacks, thus explaining why Weigel appears to have such an affinity for them.
If millions of people aren't willing to buy the Official Beltway Establishment line as propagated by folks like Weigel, perhaps that's because folks like Weigel just aren't that credible. To give a recent example, some of the evidence offered that BHO was born in the U.S. comes from FactCheck. They aren't a credible organization.
Comment posted August 25, 2009 @ 7:08 pm
That was MY line!
An other question is, who was polled?
M~.
Comment posted August 25, 2009 @ 7:45 pm
Hey everybody, visit my website. I have proof! Visit my website! Traffic means ad revenue! Visit my website! Here are some links!
Comment posted August 25, 2009 @ 8:01 pm
You forgot: Everyone else is lying/not credible! Except me!
Comment posted August 25, 2009 @ 10:15 pm
Arkansas – really!!! I'm shocked!!! Wonder why people in Arkansas don't like Obama?
Did Obama do ANYTHING to ANY politician from Arkansas to piss them off?
Like, say, steal the Democratic Presidential Primary?
Wonder why all the Arkansas hate? Hmmmmm………..
Comment posted August 25, 2009 @ 11:01 pm
These are the same folks who believe that Huckabee was born on planet Earth.
Comment posted August 25, 2009 @ 11:09 pm
I read your link, and if that's the best you have against FactCheck, it isn't very much.
According to your link, FactCheck is hiding the “fact” that Obama will legalize illegal aliens, thereby making them elibigle for health care. First of all, that is an argument about immigration law (and a ridiculous one at that), and second, if a person is legally in the United States, why shouldn't they get health care? Imagine the kind of bureaucracies we would have if a person legally in the United States would have to verify that they were legally in the United States ever since they got here. That would apply to everyone, of course.
End result: You'd spend more time researching your Social Security, residence and passport records than you would be getting health care.
Comment posted August 26, 2009 @ 3:58 am
This is a surprise why? OMG there is a black man in the White House. He just CAN”T be born here in A'merca. These people are downright embarrassing, and they can vote!
Comment posted August 27, 2009 @ 4:13 am
Oh how allegedly did he “steal” the Democratic primary?
Comment posted August 27, 2009 @ 4:14 am
They are what, 50th in the nation in Education?
Or in Arkansas speak “They ain't got no ejakashun.”
Comment posted August 27, 2009 @ 6:36 pm
Ridiculous…people believe what they want to hear, not what they know at some deep level to be truth. I hope our country snaps out of this and starts adressing real problems.
Pingback posted September 1, 2009 @ 6:19 am
[...] epicenter of the “birther” earthquake, evidently, is in Arkansas. Apparently, only a mere plurality of Arkansas residents (just 45%!) polled by PPP are convinced [...]
Comment posted September 4, 2009 @ 5:28 am
BHO's mother Stani Dunham was born in Kansas and later moved to Hawaii with her parents. She started college there at age 17 and became sexually active with the first & only biracial student who was a
part-Arab Kenyan-Brit named Obama. After first semester she was quite pregnant & the two were married even though another wife was waiting in Africa.
That summer the newlyweds took a trip to Kenya when Stani was about 7mos. along. Although Grandma Obama claimed to have been present at BHO's birth in Kenya the accepted account is that Stani was somehow able to return to Honolulu in a DC3 propjob by August 4, 1961 & gave birth to Junior(reportedly at one of 2 hospitals). Senior returned to college there & Stani, who STILL wasn't a legal adult & Junior was 2wks, went off to the state of Washington for the Fall semester. An image of a Hawaiian COLB for BHO is available online which claims there at least once was an original Birth Certificate on file there and that BC was
almost certainly from Hawaii(a state notorious for handing out COLBs to
those born elsewhere). At least two experts claim that COLB was tampered with or fake. Wasn't too long before the Obamas split-up. In a further attempt to make her parents proud young Stani went off to
Indonesia w/Junior, renounced her US citizenship & married another
moslem named Lolo Soetoro. Alledgedly Soetoro adopted young Barry so he
could attend school as an Indonesian-Moslem and learn to write his new
name in Arabic. About five years later ten-year-old Barry was sent to temporarily stay with the Dunhams but they raised him to adulthood while Stani had little sis Maya and proceeded to divorce Soetoro. It stands to reason BHO graduated from high school as Barry Soetoro. BHO's Indonesian citizenship allowed him to apply to Occidental College as a foreign student and also to get a passport to Pakistan. Many cases have been brought against BHO challenging his eligibilty to even run for president. The Supreme Court has refused to hear them for various reasons. Why hasn't Obama/Soetoro counter-sued for libel? Probably because then
he would have to produce the documents and records in question with
whatever info it is he doesn't want made public.
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