Reply #38: The 70% figure counts undecided & no's as the same thing, and does a bit of guess work [View All]

[ShadowLiberal]

It's based largely on Daily Kos' poll, but since it didn't have breakdown by race in region.

I forget which it was, they either made the assumption that most minorities didn't believe the birther rumor and would say yes, or they took the numbers by race from some other poll.

Either way though, based on minorities having a near unanimous 'yes' opinion in the poll, and what percentage of southerns are white, black, etc, they concluded that white southerners would have to be strongly believing in the birther rumor, answering either no or undecided in the daily kos poll.

If you assume every minority person in the south doesn't believe the birther rumors then 75% of white southerners would have to believe it for the south's numbers to come out as they did.