America the Ignorant

[IDemo]

Silly Things We Believe About Witches, Obama and More

By David A. Graham - Newsweek

Chances are that by now you've heard about the August 19, 2010 Pew poll that found that nearly one fifth of Americans (mistakenly) believe that President Obama is a Muslim. Perhaps you think that a terrifying outlier; or perhaps you're a believer, and then you are in good company. Either way, you're wrong: in fact, a remarkably high numbers of Americans believe the most unusual things. Although the portion of poll respondents who believe Obama is a Muslim has risen recently, some of these oddball opinions contain more consistent numbers of believers. Here's a sampling of the nuttiest.

http://www.newsweek.com/photo/2010/08/24/dumb-things-americans-believe.html

[Newsjock]

1. Love the citations, but

It's another one of those damned "gallery" pieces where each item is on its own webpage and you have to click through to see each one individually, designed to do nothing more than artificially inflate newsweek.com's page counts.

Sorry for being meta, but these things piss me off. It's not the OP's fault.

[BlueJazz]

2. These polls and such are always painful for me. I remember Growing up, ..

...and thinking (sometimes) "Boy..it's nice to live in a top 5 nation where people all pull together toward the common good"

What a Sucker I was... :( but then again...We didn't have Faux Noise and were not 11 trillion dollars in debt and the Republicans were, at least, 1/2 sane.