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So the full PPP Poll is now published. It shows, at least as I see it, not much has changed since the last presidential cycle. The tea partiers/birthers of the right whipped into a frenzy by a whisk of BS are here to stay. Trump, the king of the birthers, is dragging all of the other candidates to the extreme right. There's no tacking back to a more centerist view once you go full on birther crazy in your policy speak. The right created this monster, and once again, it's going to consume them.
Uniformed voters indeed!
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/...bama-is-a-muslim-born-in-another-country.html
Uniformed voters indeed!
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/...bama-is-a-muslim-born-in-another-country.html
Our new poll finds that Trump is benefiting from a GOP electorate that thinks Barack Obama is a Muslim and was born in another country, and that immigrant children should be deported. 66% of Trump's supporters believe that Obama is a Muslim to just 12% that grant he's a Christian. 61% think Obama was not born in the United States to only 21% who accept that he was. And 63% want to amend the Constitution to eliminate birthright citizenship, to only 20% who want to keep things the way they are.
Trump's beliefs represent the consensus among the GOP electorate. 51% overall want to eliminate birthright citizenship. 54% think President Obama is a Muslim. And only 29% grant that President Obama was born in the United States. That's less than the 40% who think Canadian born Ted Cruz was born in the United States.
Trump's supporters aren't alone in those attitudes though. Only among supporters of John Kasich (58/13), Jeb Bush (56/18), Chris Christie (59/33), and Marco Rubio (42/30) are there more people who think President Obama was born in the United States than that he wasn't. And when you look at whose supporters are more inclined to think that the President is a Christian than a Muslim the list shrinks to just Christie (55/29), Kasich (41/22), and Bush (29/22). Bush's inability to appeal to the kind of people who hold these beliefs is what's keeping him from succeeding in the race- his overall favorability is 39/42, and with voters identifying themselves as 'very conservative' it's all the way down at 33/48.