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Courtesy Flush

(4,558 posts)
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 03:47 PM Sep 2012

15 Percent of Ohio Republicans Think Mitt Romney Killed Osama bin Laden

Source: Heavy

Who is responsible for the killing of Osama bin Laden? President Barack Obama or Mitt Romney? Seems like a pretty simple question, but apparently not if you're an Ohio Republican. According to a new poll by Public Policy Polling (see the full poll results below), 15 percent of Ohio Republicans believe that Mitt Romney deserves credit for killing Osama bin Laden.

The poll, which also found a five-point lead for President Obama in Ohio, asked participants who they thought deserved more credit for the death of Osama bin Laden Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. Throughout all of Ohio the results were 63 percent for Obama, 31 percent for not sure, and 6 percent for Romney. When you look at the numbers exclusively for the GOP the results are 38 percent for Obama, 47 percent for not sure, and 15 percent for Romney.

Read more: http://www.heavy.com/news/2012/09/15-percent-of-ohio-republicans-think-mitt-romney-killed-osama-bin-laden/

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15 Percent of Ohio Republicans Think Mitt Romney Killed Osama bin Laden (Original Post) Courtesy Flush Sep 2012 OP
That's idiotic! Kber Sep 2012 #1
Ain't that just what Lyin' Ryan is Cha Sep 2012 #12
And he did it in under 3 hours n/t DWinNJ Sep 2012 #32
By himself. nt zellie Sep 2012 #65
Hillbillies are alive and sick in Ohio Hulk Sep 2012 #2
I believe in Free speech, but I sure don't believe in outright lies and hate speech RKP5637 Sep 2012 #35
Yup. Although might be more PC to call them by the mocking name their god gave 'em: 'Dittoheads.' freshwest Sep 2012 #62
I saw something the other day that I like even more maxrandb Sep 2012 #72
Seriously, I thought this was from The Onion. mac56 Sep 2012 #3
Fact: a lot of Americans are dumbshits. polichick Sep 2012 #4
Isn't there some easy, legal and affordable way to keep those plankton-brained dinks from voting? Kurovski Sep 2012 #29
Immigrants have to demonstrate a basic understanding of civics before they can vote XemaSab Sep 2012 #45
And even that is an understatement! Ignorance is rapidly RKP5637 Sep 2012 #36
If Rmoney steals this Politicalboi Sep 2012 #5
If Romney/Ryan win it will be a statement that the US has collapsed and ignorance has RKP5637 Sep 2012 #39
How can they even rationalize that.... demilib Sep 2012 #6
That's a stupid and leading question which does not need to be asked Merlot Sep 2012 #7
Thank you for your crystal clear analysis of what is behind this exercise in stupidity. left on green only Sep 2012 #54
Why The F*** would that question even Cha Sep 2012 #8
Well said!!! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2012 #41
Here is what PPP said was the reason why they asked the question, below Tx4obama Sep 2012 #50
Ah...thanks, Cha Sep 2012 #61
The answer was obvious, really Canuckistanian Sep 2012 #63
Wow, DemKittyNC Sep 2012 #9
On what do they even base this? He had no power to be involved in that. GreenPartyVoter Sep 2012 #10
I think it was a "sanity check" question Canuckistanian Sep 2012 #14
That must be it. LOL GreenPartyVoter Sep 2012 #16
Yes. See comment #50. n/t Tx4obama Sep 2012 #51
Bain capital acquired Al Q'aeda and then fired (on) Osama hahaha n/t cosmicone Sep 2012 #20
Well there ya go, then! LOL GreenPartyVoter Sep 2012 #23
I always found Middle East politics confusing until you showed up, cosmicone. (nt) philly_bob Sep 2012 #28
Does Ohio breed the illiterate? Must be really poor educational systems there. judesedit Sep 2012 #11
They have an educational system in Ohio? olddad56 Sep 2012 #18
Republicrats breed illiteracy PoliticalBiker Sep 2012 #47
OMG! How dumb are they ? april Sep 2012 #13
Well, dumber than a bag of rocks IMO! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2012 #44
Looks like 52% of Repubs are Retarded (no slight to the disabled) ruffburr Sep 2012 #15
good propaganda can make all Stake Sep 2012 #17
It means 15% of Republicans are smart enough to punk/spoof an obviously bogus question. nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #19
This Ash_F Sep 2012 #52
So 62% of Republicans think there's at least a chance Willie deserves credit for killing bin Ladin? WhoIsNumberNone Sep 2012 #21
WTF? SoapBox Sep 2012 #22
Ugh, >15% of my neighbors are a bunch of "mouth breathers"! ChromeFoundry Sep 2012 #24
Much like the citizenship question Spike89 Sep 2012 #25
Didn't you know? Paul Ryan was with the Seal team. Speck Tater Sep 2012 #26
On Saturday a very liberal guy told me that President Obama had it rough growing up in Chicago. slackmaster Sep 2012 #27
By keeping a tight sphincter for ten years? Kolesar Sep 2012 #30
Confirmed! 15 Percent of Ohio Republicans are outright fucken stupid. n/t RKP5637 Sep 2012 #31
Unfortunately DWinNJ Sep 2012 #33
cluelessness is at work here maindawg Sep 2012 #48
DUH! L0oniX Sep 2012 #34
Havent' you heard? PoliticalBiker Sep 2012 #37
Anyone checking oldsarge54 Sep 2012 #38
I'm surprised they don't think Clint Eastwood did it. cyberswede Sep 2012 #40
Clint put him up to it. olddad56 Sep 2012 #58
who is main clown here? Stake Sep 2012 #42
re:15 Percent of Ohio Republicans Think Mitt Romney Killed Osama bin Laden allan01 Sep 2012 #43
The mind boggles spiderpig Sep 2012 #46
This only proves that at least 15% of Ohio Republican voters are unadulterated white racists Jack Rabbit Sep 2012 #49
Nice rant, but no. Only means 15% are smart enough to punk an obviously bogus question. Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #53
*This* Congress Rep from NC is racist (DU thread link): Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #55
No it makes sense - see one of Bin Laden's wives had cancer.... underpants Sep 2012 #56
At one time or another, Mitt probbaly told the people of Ohio that he did kill OBL... olddad56 Sep 2012 #57
I guess rMoney did it by sending Ryan to pull the trigger? Tyrs WolfDaemon Sep 2012 #59
Lyan ran to Pakistan, killed Bin Laden, ran back in under 3 hours, I think it was two five something winstars Sep 2012 #60
... or maybe 15% of republicans ... surrealAmerican Sep 2012 #64
Stupid is as stupid does... mikki35 Sep 2012 #66
These are my neighbors,and former co workers..... jdadd Sep 2012 #67
". . .this summer I hear the drumming, BRAIN-DEAD in Ohio. . ." DinahMoeHum Sep 2012 #68
The leading product we manufacture here in Amerika is... BadGimp Sep 2012 #69
Midwest Republicans must be the dumbest creatures on this planet. DCBob Sep 2012 #70
To some of us, what's going on down there is old news MrScorpio Sep 2012 #71
 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
2. Hillbillies are alive and sick in Ohio
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 03:52 PM
Sep 2012

What's new! Until we do something about the airwaves in the countryside, we are pretty well screwed and fighting an uphill battle.

Have you ever driven across this country and listened to talk radio and stayed in the hotel chains? It's ALL fox, rush, vannity, savage and the Bible-thumpers. It's one sick, ass-backward country; but for damn good reason. It's "the voice" they hear, day in and day out. We are a dumb ass nation because the media that reaches these hillbillies feeds "dumb" 24/7.

RKP5637

(67,108 posts)
35. I believe in Free speech, but I sure don't believe in outright lies and hate speech
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 05:19 PM
Sep 2012

being broadcast 7x24 to bring the country down.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
62. Yup. Although might be more PC to call them by the mocking name their god gave 'em: 'Dittoheads.'
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 07:35 PM
Sep 2012

maxrandb

(15,330 posts)
72. I saw something the other day that I like even more
Tue Sep 11, 2012, 12:56 PM
Sep 2012

Limbaugh "DITTIOTS"

"Dildo-heads" works nicely too!

Kurovski

(34,655 posts)
29. Isn't there some easy, legal and affordable way to keep those plankton-brained dinks from voting?
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 04:56 PM
Sep 2012

I'm kidding, I'm kidding...Yes...I'm...kidding.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
5. If Rmoney steals this
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 03:53 PM
Sep 2012

Or we are out numbered by assholes, a group of us should really think about becoming illegal immigrants to Canada. Or marry a Canadian.

RKP5637

(67,108 posts)
39. If Romney/Ryan win it will be a statement that the US has collapsed and ignorance has
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 05:24 PM
Sep 2012

conquered the US. I know of some considering leaving the country even now because so much of it is so F'ed up.

demilib

(100 posts)
6. How can they even rationalize that....
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 03:53 PM
Sep 2012

considering Romney wasn't holding any political office at the time of bin laden's death?

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
7. That's a stupid and leading question which does not need to be asked
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 03:54 PM
Sep 2012

There is no debate regarding who is responsible. Putting that out there is indeed a "gotcha" question for repubs who won't give Obama credit for anything.

Stupid poll.

Cha

(297,204 posts)
8. Why The F*** would that question even
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 03:55 PM
Sep 2012

be asked? That's a stupid questoin. And, since it was..those 15%(if the poll is right) are the reasons that stupid romney LIES his F****** HEAD OFF. And, CorporatemediaWhore$$$$$$ Do Not Call him On IT.

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
50. Here is what PPP said was the reason why they asked the question, below
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 06:40 PM
Sep 2012


PublicPolicyPolling ?@ppppolls

The reason for the Osama bin Laden question was to see if Republican voters would give credit to Obama for anything. Evidently answer is no

http://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/245012788358029313





Canuckistanian

(42,290 posts)
63. The answer was obvious, really
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 10:19 PM
Sep 2012

I could have told them that.

The GOP has purged all semblance of moderates from the party. All that's left are "true believers", the hard-core radicals.

DemKittyNC

(743 posts)
9. Wow,
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 03:58 PM
Sep 2012

I thought they had all come to the agreement that it was in fact George W. Bush who killed Osama? I thought they said that W. trained the troops, set up the entire operation, had the uncanny foresight to see into the future to know when and where Osama would be for the prefect strike to take him out and even paid for the entire military operation himself out of his own pocket but then that evil democrat Obama stole his third term Presidency out from under poor W. and got to give the GO Ahead for the strike team to proceed instead and then took all of Bush's glory for himself?

Canuckistanian

(42,290 posts)
14. I think it was a "sanity check" question
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 04:03 PM
Sep 2012

Just to see if they could get ANY opinion that was coherent or even made sense.

Obviously, they failed.

judesedit

(4,438 posts)
11. Does Ohio breed the illiterate? Must be really poor educational systems there.
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 04:00 PM
Sep 2012

Sad. Poor suckers will vote against themselves.

PoliticalBiker

(328 posts)
47. Republicrats breed illiteracy
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 05:50 PM
Sep 2012

and foot-in-mouth disease
and rose-coloured glasses disease
and bass-akward facts disease
and for-it-before-you-were-against-it disease
and lying-thru-your-teeth disease

should I continue?

Stake

(200 posts)
17. good propaganda can make all
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 04:18 PM
Sep 2012

I might add that in the polls
many Japanese believe that Russia
dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945

WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
21. So 62% of Republicans think there's at least a chance Willie deserves credit for killing bin Ladin?
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 04:32 PM
Sep 2012

Why? Because Obama wouldn't have done it if Willie hadn't given him the idea? I guess in the Republican Alternate Universe anything is possible...

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
22. WTF?
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 04:34 PM
Sep 2012

Seriously? Ohio, are some of you this seriously stupid? Is it home schooling? Too much ClusterFuksNews? Hate radio?

What the hell!

ChromeFoundry

(3,270 posts)
24. Ugh, >15% of my neighbors are a bunch of "mouth breathers"!
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 04:40 PM
Sep 2012

Very sad, but yet I find it so damn amusing.
I can only imagine the answers we'd get if asked, "How many states are in the Union?"

Spike89

(1,569 posts)
25. Much like the citizenship question
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 04:49 PM
Sep 2012

Those are not real answers. I'm not big on playing games with pollsters--it is boring--but if I were asked a stupid question about W, I'd be tempted to respond with a nonsense answer too. Maybe a few of those 15% really believe Romney had something to do with it, but I doubt most did.

 

slackmaster

(60,567 posts)
27. On Saturday a very liberal guy told me that President Obama had it rough growing up in Chicago.
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 04:54 PM
Sep 2012

When I told him that the President spent most of his youth in Hawaii and attended a prestigious prep school there, he looked at me like I was crazy.

Ignorance is common among humans.

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)
30. By keeping a tight sphincter for ten years?
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 04:57 PM
Sep 2012

More likely, these Republicans cannot bring themselves to answer any question about President Obama positively.

DWinNJ

(261 posts)
33. Unfortunately
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 05:15 PM
Sep 2012

There are people who can't even get the question
"When did 9/11 happen?" correctly



and if you asked "What day of the week is today?" you would get wrong answers
 

maindawg

(1,151 posts)
48. cluelessness is at work here
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 06:00 PM
Sep 2012

The poll also shows that some % of far left are pretty clueless also.Americans are famous for being clueless. I swear many are proud to be ignorant.And there are many more who do not wish to know.
People who bury their head in the sand.

but they vote.

PoliticalBiker

(328 posts)
37. Havent' you heard?
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 05:22 PM
Sep 2012

The Republicrats won't let facts get in the way
They can say anything they want and what they say is true by osmosis

It's hard to fathom how republicrats come to believe what they do even with a mountian of evidence to the contrary

Critical Thinking is out the window with them as is the capacity to reason

Stake

(200 posts)
42. who is main clown here?
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 05:33 PM
Sep 2012

Last edited Tue Sep 11, 2012, 11:53 AM - Edit history (1)

where your Romney, who killed just dirty Osama. to our Putin which flew, together with cranes in the sky? LOL

spiderpig

(10,419 posts)
46. The mind boggles
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 05:45 PM
Sep 2012

I grew up in what was then the only Democratic majority county in Ohio. But my little burb was solid red, except for my father and a few others.

I left 30 years ago and never went back. I shudder to think what my own family (again, not father) and their friends said about John and Jacqueline Kennedy, welfare, "confirmed bachelors" - and their biggest beef - "colored people".

It hurts my head to think of it. Of course, none of them turned down their Social Security checks. Even my millionaire aunt and uncle.

(Must take shower now and bleach brain)

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
49. This only proves that at least 15% of Ohio Republican voters are unadulterated white racists
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 06:10 PM
Sep 2012

To deny a black person credit when it is due, no matter how clearly due, is a trait of white American racists. A good example of this is Rush Limbaugh's implication that any black person who rises to a level of excellence and accomplishment must be a beneficiary of affirmative action programs, even if the accomplishment in question is holding a position as an NFL quarterback or as president of the United States. Utter hypocrisy is also a trait; the same rugged individualists who touted "We (entrepreneurs) built that" (with no help from anybody) at the GOP convention two weeks ago suddenly see the point of "it takes a village" whenever they hear "Obama got Osama" and attempt to give all the credit to the Navy Seals who carried out the mission, rather than the man who directed intelligence agencies to find Osama and approve the mission after he was briefed on the situation. The current phenomenon of birtherism is a variation on the same theme, and the congressional Republicans' refusal to cooperate with president at all for any reason, regardless of the pain it causes middle class or poor Americans, is simply bare ass racism. Another example is charging that the only reason Obama gives good speeches is because he reads them off his teleprompter, while ignoring that President Reagan, "the great communicator" who made a living as a Hollywood actor before entering politics, handled the teleprompter like he invented it.

Of course, Republicans would have opposed any Democratic president who won election in 2008, even a WASP male. They quite likely would have tried to place the blame President Hilary Clinton or President Joe Biden or President Chris Dodd for the many, many failings of President George W. Bush. Still, I cannot be convinced that it would have been anywhere near this vicious.

underpants

(182,800 posts)
56. No it makes sense - see one of Bin Laden's wives had cancer....
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 07:04 PM
Sep 2012

Romney shut down a company and she died because of it. THEN Bin Laden was terrribly upset with the dying n stuff and he lost his focus and went outside to get the morning paper and BAM he was killed.

olddad56

(5,732 posts)
57. At one time or another, Mitt probbaly told the people of Ohio that he did kill OBL...
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 07:10 PM
Sep 2012

no, I guess that can't be right, because if he did tell them that, 85% would have believed him.

Tyrs WolfDaemon

(2,289 posts)
59. I guess rMoney did it by sending Ryan to pull the trigger?
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 07:14 PM
Sep 2012

Yeah, that makes sense, Ryan did it after playing a rock concert and before he returned to test rMoney's over-thruster by driving it through a mountain.

However, if any of that were real, then rMoney would actually be following Lizardo and the Red Lectroids.





winstars

(4,220 posts)
60. Lyan ran to Pakistan, killed Bin Laden, ran back in under 3 hours, I think it was two five something
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 07:21 PM
Sep 2012

Don't you remember??? I think he did it on a Sunday morning after church...

surrealAmerican

(11,360 posts)
64. ... or maybe 15% of republicans ...
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 10:27 PM
Sep 2012

... have so much disdain for polls to say just about anything. I don't see that anybody could really think that was true: this must be some not-so-subtle way to tell a pollster to f off.

mikki35

(111 posts)
66. Stupid is as stupid does...
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 10:56 PM
Sep 2012

Reminds me of the tale of the house fire - husband desperately trying to put it out with garden hose, yells at wife standing with phone in hand looking horrified - "For god's sake, woman, call the fire department!!!!" She replies, "I can't remember the number for 911!!"

I'm thinking maybe she answered a poll question in Ohio...

jdadd

(1,314 posts)
67. These are my neighbors,and former co workers.....
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 11:29 PM
Sep 2012

I've lived most of my life here in "Red" Central Ohio...

I actually was written up on my last job for saying "scumbag republicans" within earshot of a republican co worker. This person ran to Human resources, claiming I called her a scumbag Republican...Damn!! I wasn't even talking to her. It was requested I apologize to her, and have no more problems with her, or I would be discharged...

I gave her my best non apology....LOL I saw the human resources director snicker a bit when I did that...I retired about 4 months after that. The plant closed about 7 months after that...

I currently live in an affluent suburb, which wasn't always that way. I inherited my Parents place where I grew up. I probably couldn't afford to live here, if I had to buy, or rent...I'm probably one of maybe 15 natives left here. I'm surrounded by Particle board Mc Mansions. (Homes built cheap, to look expensive.) Damn Yuppies and Baggers everywhere....Arrrrrgh!!!

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