Stay updated with breaking news from Gall republicans. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
The infamous birther question. was the president born in the united states? under our constitution he has to be born here to be president. ohio republican primary voters, people who voted already this year, 37% don t think barack obama was born here. just 2 in 5 say the president was american born and, therefore, a legitimate president. when you ask the president s religion, this gets scary. a majority of all voters don t take him at his word. just 49%. this is all voters, say he s a christian, which is what he says he is. and 30% of republicans and 34% of conservative republicans say obama is a muslim. simple as that. now, here s the point, these bad numbers, saying it twice wrong, these 34%, they re twice what they were four years ago. when he came in people took him at face value. this guy is what he says he is. i m american born, obviously. i got a whole history, it was announced when i was born in honolulu, in all the papers there, and i am what i am, a christian. i go to this chu ....
Some very weird things. well, when the queen mary starts making regular trips across the polar ice cap because there s no more polar ice cap, do you think they might notice? has anybody seen the pictures of greenland the other day? there s no snow. i agree with joe. i agree that, number one, the republicans are the nostalgia party. they re the simplicity party. they re the are they luddites, anti-science? i think if they re convinced, as many of them are, that science is being used as a conspiracy to take away their freedom and take away their independence i saw that movie, it s called planet of the apes and it wasn t a comedy. as i m sure joe and i listen to we watch fox, we listen because have you to cover the whole spectrum as a reporter, that s the that s the message that you get. that the scientists and the bureaucrats are combining to rob us of our freedom. so it s basically a fear, it s a fear of everything. take a look at this number though. ....
A third. less than half believe in global warming. only 2 out of 5 in ohio, for example, believed he was born in the u.s. the rest are to one degree or the other birthers. and just to make you feel a little better about that and let you know how low information these voters are on the right, catch this. two-thirds of republicans say there were weapons of mass destruction in iraq when our troops got there in 2003. do they have amnesia? have they been buried in their basements the last nine years? what explains this many people being so out to lunch they don t even remember how w, remember him, he was president, blew his whole reason for sending our troops in there in the first place. how can people be so helpless. anyway, this may explain why romney is in trouble because people out there think his party is out of it. joining me is howard fineman and joe klein of the times. let s take a look at the two polls. the two key states ohio and florida. according to the washington post, pres ....
But he pushed through health care reform at the very beginning. he knew these things would take time, and so he set it up in a way to enable the big payoff to come later, which is a high-risk/high-reward strategy. on the debt, of course, the republicans went nuts and prevented him from getting a sensible grand bargain on this, but, again, he set up the debt ceiling fiasco so we have sequestration coming down december 31st and the end of the bush tax cuts if nothing happens. and even jim demint has now conceded that if obama wins, then they will have to give on taxes. once the republicans give on taxes, we could have the grand bargain if, if, i think, obama wins with a big enough margin. let s get to that quote by senator de demint, very conservative senator from south carolina. we re not going to save our defense unless we go along with the president s wishes to raise taxes on small business. ....
What do you make of these numbers? democrats in this new poll, 63% say there was no weapons of mass destruction. 15% say there were. okay. 1 out of 6 democrats think there might have been. republicans however, 63% of republicans say, yes, there were weapons of mass destruction, almost two-thirds. how do we account for this misstatement of fact? well, i think this is a tribute to the persuasive powers of rush limbaugh and fox news and the drudge report and the rest of that echo chamber. you don t hear rush talking about weapons of mass destruction anymore, and i saw this pie chart on andrew sullivan s blog today, something like 93% of the mentions of global warming on fox news knock it down as a real phenomenon. so when you have people living in this hermetically sealed world that does not resemble reality, they wind up believing ....