Poll: 23% Of Texans Think Obama Is Muslim

Houston Chronicle:

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.

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Comments

[wolf58]

and we were wondering where all those current Bush supporters are, now we know.

[laragale]

I live in Texas and in Austin at least we are majority for Obama - now some of the scary Crawford-ish places - you "betcha" they are hook line and sinker for Bible Spice and Peepaw

[Mainer36]

Of course they do. Im sure an equal amount of the people in Texass are waiting for the rapture as well.

[scorpioleidy]

That figures --- this is the state responsible for W!

[miocid31]

What did you expect, this is the state that gave us mr. W!

[DJYoung]

Therefore a demonstrable 23% of Texans are ignorant. End of argument.

[harriscrl3]

Isnt this the same state where another AA man was recently dragged to his death?

Carol

[BillForObama]

I am from East Texas. I don't live in Texas now, but certainly hope to go back.

This most recent incident happened in Paris, TX. A similar incident with an AA woman recently happened in Florida.

[sklfcats]

He is

[JiminNC]

Look honey, they do exist!

[robertsandimas]

The US suffers from Regional Stupidity. Thank the gods it isn't nationwide.

[Smirk]

Don't fool yourself. There are pockets of it everywhere. With effort and good luck, there will be fewer and fewer in the years to come.

[teronhussein678]

Bush county ... what do you expect ....

[Toonadude]

Interesting. I believe that 100% of Texans have s**t for brains.

[aliceinthewater]

Hey now! Austin is nice....

The rest of the state... well... not so much.

[Smirk]

Guess again. Austin and a lot of the big cities are blue.