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		<title>Birther Poll Finds Whopping Eight Percent of Americans &#8216;Troubled&#8217; by Obama Rumors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Weigel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>WorldNetDaily <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&#38;pageId=101368">reports</a> on the results of a Wenzel Strategies poll, paid for by the fringe news Website, that asked 790 adults about the conspiracy theories surrounding President Obama&#8217;s citizenship. (Conspiracy theory debunked <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2206033/">here</a>.) Alex Koppelman <a href="http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/06/18/birthers/index.html">goes through</a> the methodology that allowed the site to claim that Birtherism <a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/47510/birther-poll-finds-whopping-eight-percent-of-americans-troubled-by-obama-rumors" class="read_more">More...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WorldNetDaily <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=101368">reports</a> on the results of a Wenzel Strategies poll, paid for by the fringe news Website, that asked 790 adults about the conspiracy theories surrounding President Obama&#8217;s citizenship. (Conspiracy theory debunked <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2206033/">here</a>.) Alex Koppelman <a href="http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/06/18/birthers/index.html">goes through</a> the methodology that allowed the site to claim that Birtherism was now a majority position.</p>
<blockquote><p>The result trumpeted by WND is that 41.5 percent of respondents said &#8220;Obama should release all records, including long-form birth certificate,&#8221; essentially the &#8220;yes&#8221; answer WND was looking for. An additional 7.8 percent said they &#8220;are troubled by these questions,&#8221; which the site has been lumping in with the yes answer. The &#8220;no&#8221; answer, though, they <a href="http://wenzelstrategies.com/?attachment_id=410" target="_blank">split up</a> into five different responses &#8212; &#8220;I am not concerned,&#8221; &#8221;questions not valid,&#8221; &#8220;Obama has met requirements,&#8221; &#8220;Obama has answered all questions&#8221; and &#8220;requirements outdated &#8212; should be ignored.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><span id="more-47510"></span>I asked Fritz Wenzel about this, whether it made sense to combine &#8220;I am troubled&#8221; and &#8220;Obama should release all his records,&#8221; as one intimates real worry about Obama&#8217;s citizenship while one just asks for transparency. &#8220;They are different questions,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but I think it&#8217;s reasonable to group them together. If people are troubled by a situation, they want more data.&#8221;</p>
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