For those that think 18% believing Obama to be muslim is shocking:

[scheming daemons]

In 2002, 19% of the population believed Elvis might still be alive

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,60353,00.html


25% of British citizens, and 6% of Americans, believe that man has never landed on the moon:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/07/17/moon.landing.hoax/index.html




Is it really so hard to believe that 18% of the public believes Obama is a muslim?


I bet more than 18% of the public believes in leprechauns.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Why didn't that make me feel better?

:crazy: :scared:

[LaurenG]

2. Hey, don't diss the leprechauns!11's

:hi:

[citizenbfk]

3. Majority of GOP think the President a 'secret Muslim."

The percentage appears to be increasing.

Today in the Huffington post a poll reported a majority of GOP think the President a 'secret Muslim."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/30/obama-islamic-fundamentalist-gop-polled-majority-says_n_699883.html

[cigsandcoffee]

4. 30-50% of Americans still believe in ghosts, depending on which poll you believe.

As far as humans have come, we're still awfully primitive, full of susperstitions and fear.

[mrs_p]

21. i'm a scientist through and through

but had a "ghostly" encounter. i can't explain it at all, and i know it wasn't my imagination. i hope to think i'm not full of superstitions and fear.

[Blue Meany]

5. What percentage of those watch Fox News? n/t

[Sheepshank]

6. In the case of republican political tea baggers

and in the case of Obama's birthplace and religion, I personally think it's more of stating (hoping) they believe it rather than an actual belief. You know that there are many who really believe that saying it may actually make it come true.

[kestrel91316]

7. My assistant, aged 25, who is otherwise a very intelligent and well-informed

left-leaning person, thinks the moon missions were fake.

No accounting for it. I just shake my head and sigh.

[Ter]

9. I go back and forth with that one

Both sides make good cases.

[awoke_in_2003]

10. no, both sides do not...

think about- if we faked the moon landings, would the Soviet Union have let us get away with it? Hell no, they would be screaming blue bloody murder, and would post the telemetry data as evidence.

[Ter]

12. If we faked it, how would they know?

Not saying we faked it, but if we did, perhaps we pulled it over their heads too?

[awoke_in_2003]

14. Radio telescopes...

like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovell_Telescope
This is British, but it was the easiest to find as "Jodrell Bank" is something that I remembered. The Soviets had the same type of equipment.

[Ter]

20. A 1969 radio telescope could dtect a landing on the moon?

Didn't know that, thanks for the info.

[awoke_in_2003]

22. Yeah, even then...

tracking an object in space was easier than putting one there.

[Lucky Luciano]

8. Very easy to believe. As a matter of fact,

I suspect that if I intersect the set of blue collar workers and those approved of bush's presidency, that number would also be 18%. If we further intersected that set with those people that think Obama is a Muslim, we would still be at 18%.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. he is a muslin...

when he is not practicing liberation theology and faking new birth certificates :)

[activa8tr]

13. Yes, but they all vote?

It really doesn't matter to me if some believe we never landed on the moon if they don't bother to vote.

[boppers]

15. What percentage believe in God?

Americans believe in all kinds of crazy things with no basis in reality.

[Cali_Democrat]

16. Actually it's 24% according to Newsweek and Time polls

Not only is it shocking, it's a fucking JOKE and an indictment on what a pathetic disaster the mediawhores are for our country

Just as bad as in 2003 when 70% of Americans thought there was a connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda even though there was no proof.

The mediawhores aren't doing their jobs and they appear to be making things worse.

:banghead:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

17. That's 18% of Republicans.

7% Democrats.

[Cali_Democrat]

18. No....actually it's 18% of Americans

Newsweek's poll has 24% of Americans, not just Republicans.

[Catshrink]

19. Leprechauns no, unicorns, yes!