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Poll: Obama as “Anti-Christ?”

Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief in Politics.
Sep 16th, 2009 | Comments

From Public Policy Polling (sigh):

We’ve been uncovering a remarkable level of anger toward Barack Obama in a lot of our recent polling so for New Jersey we decided to go a step further in determining how extreme some people’s feelings are about the President and asked respondents if they think he is the Anti-Christ.

8% said yes. 13% aren’t sure. Among Republicans 14% said yes and 15% weren’t sure.

Pretty eye popping numbers. The extent to which some people already hate Obama is amazing. We’ll test that question nationally this weekend.

And just in case you mistakenly think that all of the pistachio nuts are in just one political party, keep this in mind:

The extremism in New Jersey isn’t limited to the right though. 19% of voters in the state, including 32% of Democrats, think that George W. Bush had prior knowledge of 9/11.

Beyond that 21% of respondents, including 33% of Republicans, express the belief that Obama was not born in the United States.

There’s more so read it in its entirety. This underscores a fact: some Americans will believe anything they are told if it comes from a source they trust or a figure or institution with whom they already agree. Not a good harbinger for the U.S. as it heads into what promises to be an ever more polarized 21st century where people talk past each other, instead of with each other.

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dmf

i generally answer yes to this question. and i'm an atheist.

superdestroyer

Everyone should have realized by now that Bill Gates is really the anti-christ and and giving control of your computer to Window is worse than Demonic possession.

Ron Beasley

Just had to give you a "Like" on that one.

DLS

"Windows" -- something that government might actually be able to do better

elrod

The wording on the "truther" question is a bit vague. One can interpret the "knew ahead of time about the 9/11 attacks" as the infamous August memo warning of an imminent attack. Of course, a bona fide truther believes that Bush actually knew of the specific 9/11 plan and deliberately did nothing to stop it. Trutherism is a conspiracy theory. But those who reject that conspiracy theory still could have answered the question in a way to make them look like truthers.

A better question would be: "Do you believe that President Bush had specific knowledge of the 9/11 attack ahead of time and deliberately allowed it to happen?"

The anti-Christ question is hilarious. People who actually believe in the existence of the antichrist are delusional to begin with - and usually anti-Semitic (the antichrist is usually described as Jewish). Incidentally, these same people often find all distasteful figures to be the anti-Christ.

Leonidas

This underscores a fact: some Americans will believe anything they are told if it comes from a source they trust or a figure or institution with whom they already agree.

And some will believe the results of such polls are real. =P

I'd be tempted to say yes on such a poll to any pollster dumb enough to ask such a question.

archangel

I'm with Ron Beasley, that was funny superdestroyer.

you also DLS

man, the moon must be in the comedic phase. Good.

Thanks.

dr.e

Leonidas

Oh if you really want to get silly, track back that poll to the entire survey and something really comical jumps out. 5% of people in that poll who voted for Obama think he is the anti-christ. So that would infer that 5% of Obama supporters in that state were trying to elect the anti-christ as President.

Like I said I think this poll is rubbish, but its still pretty funny.

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