Obama the Muslim and his Christian Preacher

http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2008/03/obama_the_muslim_and_his_chris.php

One of the things you heard a lot from Obama supporters over the last couple of weeks was the rueful observation that the Jeremiah Wright controversy would at least greatly reduce the whisper-campaign-fed perception that he's a Muslim. Not so, says a new Pew poll.

There is little evidence that the recent news about Obama's affiliation with the United Church of Christ has dispelled the impression that he is Muslim. While voters who heard "a lot" about Reverend Wright's controversial sermons are more likely than those who have not to correctly identify Obama as a Christian, they are not substantially less likely to still believe that he is Muslim. Nearly one-in-ten (9%) of those who heard a lot about Wright still believe that Obama is Muslim.

The percentage of Americans believing Obama's a Muslim ranges from 14% among Republicans, to 10% among Democrats, to 8% among independents. At the risk of repeating one of those misleading triple-loaded poll findings, 23% of white Democrats with an unfavorable opinion of Obama think he's a Muslim.

Moreover, a third of poll respondents--and a third of Democrats--say they don't know what religion Barack Obama observes.


If true, this article juust proves that we on DU really are the minority. Far more people don't pay attention to news, cable, or MESSAGE BOARDS!!!

Hell, two-thirds of American students can't find Great Britain on a map....

That 10-14 percent you can't worry about. They're never going to get it right.

The ultra-stoopid (or the ultra-rich and greedy).

and living in a mosque somewhere...?

There are always wackos who will believe anything.

And something like 20% still support Bush.

I suspect there's significant overlap among those 3 groups...