Poll finds 23% of Texans think Obama is Muslim

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WASHINGTON — A University of Texas poll to be released today shows Republican presidential candidate John McCain and GOP Sen. John Cornyn leading by comfortable margins in Texas, as expected. But the statewide survey of 550 registered voters has one very surprising finding: 23 percent of Texans are convinced that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is a Muslim.

Obama is a Christian who was embroiled in a controversy earlier this year about his two-decade membership in Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Yet just 45 percent of those polled identified the Illinois senator as a Protestant.

The Obama-is-a-Muslim confusion is caused by fallacious Internet rumors and radio talk-show gossip. McCain went so far at one of his town hall meetings to grab a microphone from a woman who claimed that Obama was an Arab.

The Texas numbers are unusual because most national polls show that just 5 to 10 percent of Americans still believe Obama is a Muslim — less than half the number of Texans who buy into the debunked theories.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6084678.html

[Niels Bohr 72]

Well, I have never thought of Obama's religion. I thought he was a muslim, honestly.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

I am surprised. Wait. Not really.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

I thought he was an Arab.

[jundp 191]

23% of Texans think Texas is a separate country.....

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

23% of Texans think Texas is a separate country.....

it can be.

[akdiver 3]

I bet another poll would find that 80% or more of Texans think that Texas is the biggest state in the union too.

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

I bet another poll would find that 80% or more of Texans think that Texas is the biggest state in the union too.

it used to be, but texans still have a bigger state of mind.

[akdiver 3]

texans still have a bigger state of mind.

uh...............ok.

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

texans still have a bigger state of mind.

uh...............ok.

[PlatyPius 5]

82% of Texans still think Jesus is UN President, 64% believe that the earth is flat, 93% believe Obama killed JR, and 99.3% can't find their own ####### with a flashlight, both hands, and a Garmin GPS.

[EstebanTrabajos 7]

Yeap, saddly I live in the wrong state

NM here I come

[William33 110]

Who really cares what his religion choice may be? So what if he is a Muslim, although he claims Christianity. Does that make him unqualified or unacceptable? Only if you are an ignorant dumb azz!

This is my (center) Republican perspective.

[IAMX 3,055]

Sounds an awful lot like a bunch of stupid people a few years ago who still thought Saddam was responsible for 9/11.

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

82% of Texans still think Jesus is UN President, 64% believe that the earth is flat, 93% believe Obama killed JR, and 99.3% can't find their own ####### with a flashlight, both hands, and a Garmin GPS.

texans don't need a gps, we can read a map.