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‘Scary’ Harris poll: 24% of Republicans think Obama ‘may be the Antichrist’ |
Harris poll: 24% of Republicans think Obama may be the AntichristBirthers, deathers, now, apparently, there are Antichristers on the Obama warpath.
The Daily Beast's John Avlon writes, "On the heels of health care, a new Harris poll reveals Republican at udes about Obama: Two-thirds think he's a socialist, 57 percent a Muslim—and 24 percent say 'he may be the Antichrist.'"
57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama is a Muslim 45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president" 38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama is "doing many of the things that Hitler did" Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans (14 percent overall) say that Obama "may be the Antichrist." These numbers all come from a brand-new Louis Harris poll, inspired in part by my new book Wingnuts. It demonstrates the cost of the campaign of fear and hate that has been pumped up in the service of hyper-partisanship over the past 15 months. We are playing with dynamite by demonizing our president and dividing the United States in the process. What might be good for ratings is bad for the country.
The poll, which surveyed 2,230 people right at the height of the health-care reform debate, also clearly shows that education is a barrier to extremism. Respondents without a college education are vastly more likely to believe such claims, while Americans with college degrees or better are less easily duped. It's a reminder of what the 19th-century educator Horace Mann once too-loftily said: "Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge."
Alibi.com blogger Erin McCullough writes, "Are you a Republican who is mostly non-crazy? (Leaving the belief that most taxes are bad aside.) Then, hey: Um, tell your fellow party members to stop being so bat ."
The blogger adds,
It's hard for Democrats to want to make concessions with sane Republicans (Olympia Snowe, and, hold on ... I'll get back to you) when dingholes like Texas Rep. Neugebauer (the latest in what's becoming a trend of grown men who yell inappropriate things at work, which I can tell you from experience is not a luxury most of us have. His shout; "baby killer") stinking up the wings.
Anyway. Craziness. There were plenty of people spouting crazy theories about Bush Jr. during his presidency, but most of those people were sitting outside of Winnings coffee, not in Congress. Sigh.
The poll seems to reveal that many Republicans share beliefs with the radical Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. The church run by Fred Phelps has been roundly criticized for picketing funerals of troops killed in the war on terror.
AOL News recently noted,
Members of the church, most of them relatives of founder Fred Phelps, have shown up at dozens of military memorial services in recent years, bearing signs with slogans like "God Hates the USA" and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers."
The tiny sect holds that soldiers' deaths are God's way of punishing America for its tolerance of sexuals. The church's Web site also refers to President Barack Obama as the "Antichrist Bloody Beast" and calls Israel a "savage hypocritical nation of filthy sinners."
http://rawstory.com/2010/03/scary-ha...ay-antichrist/
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crooky's not a person.
she's a parasite.
My avatar is only a joke based on a very old thread started by angel_luv.
I don't think Obama is evil -- just wrong.
Why did you think they were talking about you?
just for the record, D, i don't think all birthers believe he's the anti-christ.
And maybe all people that disagree with Obama's politics aren't birthers, racists, or end-of-days religious nuts.
But, it's a convenient distraction.
i was referring to you.
That's exactly what this article says.
I can't seem to find this "poll".
I suspect it's a survey, not a poll. The Harris interactive site has no mention of it whatsoever. Weird.
Ahhh...it'll be released tomorrow. Thx. Missed that.
Maybe it's naive, but I like to believe a lot of the respondents don't actually believe these things, and that saying they do is somehow therapeutic. But it's still embarrassing.
he may be the anti-christ. who am I to judge?
No, not all Repugs are like the assholes in this poll.
But the assholes in this poll (which includes "Christian" supremacists/extremists/militants, etc, etc), along with Fox Repug Network, have captured the Repug party.
See Frum's take:
http://rawstory.com/2010/03/frum-rep...work-fox-news/
Stuff like this just depresses me and convinces me that people are idiots...
It kills any hope that I have for America :[
Everyone knows the Antichrist will be a white man, as the Antichrist is the opposite of the Christ. Jesus was a black guy, so it's only logical to expect his opposite to be a white dude.
That is, if such things as the Antichrist are even logical. Can WC give these people some IQ tests?
It wasn't. Nor was it intended to be.
The smell test failure begins here: “A new book, Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America by John Avlon describes the large numbers of Americans who hold extreme views of President Obama. This Harris Poll seeks to measure how many people are involved.”
Either this was a commissioned poll or not. Harris is silent on the subject. It seems a reasonable assumption that it was commissioned by the author, John Avalon as an adjunct to his new book. Either way, it's a common flaw to let your methodology be influenced by the subject or hypothesis of the poll.
Case in point: The poll questions were posited as only True/False. There was no choice for "I don't know". This is a blatantly biased approach to reinforce the "true" response. If a person is uncertain or doesn't have a strong opinion or feeling about a question, or thinks that there may be some chance that it or components of the question could be true, that person will pick "True".
The questions themselves are loaded with positioning qualifiers....He has done many of the things Hitler has done. Hmmm...he leads a county by dint of his exceptional presence and vision. Check. Is it possible he shares other traits with Hitler, or maybe JFK, or maybe even Regan?
He has done many uncons utional things? Why is "many" even a factor? Because the term "Many" weights the results and places a bear trap for the person being polled.
Look, unquestionably there are nutbars out there who believe this . You get that on either side of the debate. But to use a fatally biased methodology to deliver what is construed as a "representative poll" is profoundly intellectually dishonest.
Further, this was an online poll only so the notion that this is the result of probability sampling goes right out the window. Harris does a good job of qualifying the results. But the nutbars that post this don't bother to read the qualifiers.
What Teysha is saying here about methodology is absolutely true. Once you find out that the poll is an 'on-line poll, you have essentially conceded that it cannot be representative of any group other than those who responded. I.E., you cannot interpret the findings to the general population. Any self-selecting poll (as any on-line poll must be) cannot be considered representative in any way other than accidentally.
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