Nov
12
Bags Of Hammers Gasp
ByBeliefnet’s exit polling shows that 52.1% of all evangelical Christian McCain voters believe that Barack Obama is or was a Muslim.
Fifty. Two. Point. One.
I’m not sure how we go about unifying a nation when over half of one political party is stocked with the terminally gullible, painfully uncurious, or tragically dense.
I would have included the image of the polling graph, but the computer I’m borrowing doesn’t want to save images in any helpful way. Anyone seen my fracking box?
16 Comments
November 12th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
We will never be able to unite everyone. Best case scenario, Obama does alright and the fringe marginalizes itself more.
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November 12th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Um… Gordon — they don’t matter anymore.
What Matt said.
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November 12th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Yeah 100% of these people thought McCain would be a good president.
There you go…
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November 12th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Andrew, Matt,
A brother can be shocked, can’t he?
The other 47.9% are the ones we ought to attend to, to be sure, but Palin, Romney, and the gang rushing to fill the leadership vacuum will be wooing the 52.1% with promises of Jeebus, War, and Hatin’ on some Lib’ruls.
It’s neither here nor there, I suppose, just shocking.
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November 13th, 2008 at 6:38 am
Daniel Pipes is neither terminally gullible, painfully uncurious, nor tragically dense. In this 2007 essay, Pipes discusses the matter.
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November 13th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Yes, I ought to have added a fourth column for Pipes and his adherents: Savagely obtuse.
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November 13th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Here’s a very frank, ranging interview Obama did in 2004. It’s all about religion and spirituality.
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November 13th, 2008 at 11:13 am
I guess it depends on what your definition of was is.
And anyway, who cares if Obama was a Muslim — not that there’s anything wrong with that. The hoolie doth protest too much, methinks.
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November 13th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Yeah! Who cares?
A: About 52.1% of McCain voters evidently.
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November 13th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
In the meantime that 52.1% is on the outside looking in. Hope they don’t forget their baby rattles and pacifiers in prep for their string of wilderness-entrenched townhall meets. It’s gonna be a long, cold winter.
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November 13th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Muslim is code for “dark skinned” (or insert racial epithet du jour here). Just like unamerican, terrorist and whatever else those cretards were spewing at that the Palin hatefests.
Really what is the difference between Christian and Muslim? Don’t they both believe in the same invisible man who lives in the sky, reads minds, and watches women change in locker rooms?
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November 13th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Personally, I think that being a Muslim is no worse than being a Christian.
On the other hand, we all know that a high percentage of Republicans and conservatives don’t think that way. They won’t vote for a Muslim.
The word “Muslim” is thrown around in certain circles like the words “radical” and “liberal” used to be, and like the word “terrorist” is now. We all know it is considered to be a Bad Word by millions of voting Americans.
How can a person say “who cares if Obama is a Muslim– not that there’s anything wrong with that”?
Disingenuous, or ignorant?
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November 13th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Gordon, yes my brother be shocked, I find that figure disturbingly high as well. Im just saying that there is a slice of America that will be this way no matter what. Personally, I want an agnostic president. Dont know, no way of knowing, dont care. That’s what I would love to see from a leader. Too bad it wont happen anytime soon.
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November 13th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
I believe that number was the percentage of self-identified evangelical Christians who voted for McCain, and also believed Obama to be, or to have been Muslim during his lifetime. It is still a high number, as was a Univ. of Texas poll that showed some 24% of Texas voters also believed the Obama as Muslim story.
Whenever a significant number of voters hold a patently false, debunked rumor as true, it is bad news for the democratic process.
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November 13th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Katherine,
That makes me feel so much better. I went back and looked, and you’re right.
Whew. It’s just half of the evangelical Christians who are very nutbaggy.
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November 14th, 2008 at 5:32 am
I wish I had something witty to say.
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