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51% of Republicans STILL believe Barack Obama was born in Kenya. http://www.newsweek.com/trump-birther-obama-poll-republicans-kenya-744195 http://www.newsweek.
by ghostbrainalpha 9y ago
51% of Republicans STILL believe Barack Obama was born in Kenya.
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-birther-obama-poll-republicans-kenya-744195 http://www.newsweek.com/trump-birther-obama-poll-republicans...
There are definitely principled conservatives that are highly informed.
But the strategy the Republican party and media uses to win elections, includes a lot of disinformation and caters to the uninformed.
- adamiscool8 9y ago50% of Democrats believed George W Bush was complicit in 9/11 [1]. People like to believe their own tribe is the exalted one, but exploiting the uninformed isn't a partisan strategy. [1] https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2011/04/more-than-half-of-democrats-believed-bush-knew-035224 https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2011/04/more-than-h...
- triplesec 9y agoand that's a false equivalence. It is provably true that Obama wasn't born in Kenya. However, it is plausible that some in government (not just W) wanted that war. The survey you refer to does not compare to the simple yes/no of the Birther idiocy
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