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One In Four Texans Say Obama’s A Muslim
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Houston Chronicle:
WASHINGTON — A University of Texas poll to be released today shows Republican presidential candidate John McCain and GOP Sen. John Cornyn leading by comfortable margins in Texas, as expected. But the statewide survey of 550 registered voters has one very surprising finding: 23 percent of Texans are convinced that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is a Muslim.
The Texas numbers are unusual because most national polls show that just 5 to 10 percent of Americans still believe Obama is a Muslim.
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23%
This Blog Is Full Of Crap —
Apparently, 23% of Texans think Obama is a Muslim.
What do the other 77% think he is? Hindu?
A University of Texas poll to be released today shows Republican presidential candidate John McCain and GOP Sen. John Cornyn leading by comfortable margins in Texas, as expected. But the statewide survey of 550 registered voters has one very surprising finding: 23 percent of Texans are convinced that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Obama is a Christian who was embroiled in a controversy earlier this year about his two-decade membership in ...
McCain's Edge
Talking Points Memo —
23% of Texas think Obama is a Muslim.
Shocking Headline of the Day
Patterico's Pontifications —
[Guest post by DRJ]
From the Houston Chronicle:
“Poll finds 23% of Texans think Obama is Muslim”
The poll was conducted by the University of Texas Department of Government. By Texas’ standards, UT may be the closest we have to a bastion of liberalism.
Now here’s the rest of the story:
The poll was conducted solely on the internet.
One-third of the respondents are 18-34 years old, but only 20% of the voters are in that age bracket.
The ...
Prop 8
DownWithTyranny! —
... Extra credit for anyone who can explain how this story in the Houston Chrocicle about how 23% of Texans are convinced that Barack Obama is a Muslim is related to the post above.
Everything is bigger in Texas, including the appalling ignorance
The Reaction —
... As the Houston Chronicle is reporting, a new University of Texas poll finds that "23 percent of Texans are convinced that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is a Muslim." ...
alicublog — ... ; the 23 percent of Texans who think Obama is a Muslim. These are delightful, of course, but I am more a spellbound observer of human venality and stupidity than of madness, particularly among the cast of the Thimble Theatre that is the subject of this blog. ...
I Want To Be An Agnetologist When I Grow Up
Newshoggers.com —
... from 52 percent to 42 percent between 2003 and 2008. Just days before the election, nearly a quarter of respondents in one Texas poll were convinced that Obama is a Muslim. And the proportion of Americans who believe God did not guide evolution? It's 14 percent today, a two-point decline since the '90s, ...
