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Birther Poll Finds Whopping Eight Percent of Americans ‘Troubled’ by Obama Rumors

By | 06.19.09 | 2:04 pm

WorldNetDaily reports 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’s citizenship. (Conspiracy theory debunked here.) Alex Koppelman goes through the methodology that allowed the site to claim that Birtherism More…

Palin Deflates Obama’s Bounce

By | 09.01.08 | 1:25 pm

Presidential nominees typically get a bounce out of successful conventions, and Sen. Barack Obama’s performance was a hit by any metric. (More on that later.) After a busy weekend, however, national polling shows that Obama got no bounce at all. Gallup: