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

[marasgram18]

Texas another state that fights Alaska for the honor of having the most high school dropouts and poor education

[NationalTreasure]

considering the prevaiing bigotry and racism in the very red state of Texas, the good news is that 77% of Texans do not believe Sen. Obama is a muslim.

[functor]

Nope it is not 77%. Instead it is 45%. 32% are in doubt!

[hannitysux]

The motto of most Americans: F TEXAS!

[Texas4Obama]

That is NOT true.

[globality]

POLL: 90% of the world thinks Texans are stupid

[SFkid]

um 95%

[vippy]

I am in Texas and voted for Obama but I happen to know that most will vote for McCain because he
is white, and because Obama is tied to Muslims, etc. etc. Unbelievable the lies that are sent via e-mail.
At this point I am ashamed being from Texas - it shows we are a century behind the rest of the
country.

[kelvinstinks]

Get out while you can!!!! I did.

[Texas4Obama]

If more people stayed in Texas then Texas would have turned BLUE sooner ;)

[dlockatl]

Yep. Native Texan here. Houston born, but I lived in a small town (2k people) south of Dallas. Could not take the "mentality" of those "small town folk". Some are kindhearted, but too many were racists (and proud of it). It does not surprise me that 23% think he is Muslim.

Why do (ignorant) white people assume that the white person they are speaking to is racists? I am embarrassed by my own race more times than I want to admit.

[ultra5701]

George Bush is from Texas, what does one expect.

[chronic]

Exactly! Case closed!

[Judemw]

George Bush is NOT from Texas. The Bushes are carpetbaggers who came to Texas to make a profit....­..... he was born in New Haven, Connecticut. Do your research.

[kathy001]

I am just blown away by the nastiness directed at the State of Texas and all Texans in these comments. Some of the commenters sound more like the people at a Palin rally than the intelligent, well informed people I expect to see on this site. It's one thing to make jokes but it seems like some of you folks have just been looking for someone to hate and now you've decided to jump on the "Hate All Texans" bandwagon. How is that any different from the "Hate All Muslims" bandwagon?

Come on. We are Obama supporters! We are better than this!!!!

I am an Obama supporter from Dallas, TX and I am not alone!

[George The Carpenter]

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorsh­ip." -- Alexander Tyler writing in 1787 about the fall of the Athenian Republic

[theone718]

When people say "Obama is a Muslim" and then they are confronted with THE TRUTH that he is a christian they ALWAYS say "Well.....­uhhh......­...nah I heward he's a dern Mus l i m."

[tel8034]

What do you expect? ..........­..........­. This is the state that voted in George W. Bush as Governor.

It's obvious that they have some blown lightbulbs in their noggins.

[chronic]

LOL!!

[Anne Elk Miss]

Our accents here in Texas are hard to discern... they actually thought he was "Muslin".

I wonder how well Obama will do in DFW, since I have seen more Obama/Biden stickers/signs this election than I saw Gore or Kerry in previous years. I think McCain wins, but not as handily as one might think.

Texas certainly has not cornered the market on "ill-informed" voters. If you want to get paranoid/d­epressed..­. listen to last Sunday's "This American Life" podcast called "The Ground Game"... especially the parts where PA Dems who supported HRC are actively getting people to vote for McCain. Chilling. That you would hold a grudge so greatly you would rather see McCain win than a candidate who lines up almost identically philosophically to HRC. Non-sensical.

[khaleef49]

Obama will win Dallas county.

[khaleef49]

I am married to a Muslim. My children are Christian. There is a big difference between American muslims and those born in the middle East, just like there is a big difference from KKK christians and people who actually believe in christianity.

[Kuroneko]

23%, huh. That's lower than Bush's approval rate. So that's pretty good.

[iranter]

if someone really knows this please post an answer. when a child is born to a muslim father and a non muslim woman, that child is muslim.

correct?

[dirtfreak]

So?

[SFkid]

Yeah, that's a lame philosophy. Think about it...

if a child's parents are terrorist, does that make you a terrorist?
If your folks are drug addicts, does that make you a drug addict?
Your parents are both Punk Rockerss, will you be a punk rocker?

You can't force a person to be anything, this is the Worlds problem. My parents are Buddhist but I grew up Christian and now I don't resonate with religion at all, what does that make me? Let it go.

[marasgram18]

oh geez more code word logic if a child has any other ethnicity included they are black irregardless of their other genes this is the same stupid reasoning get lost

[knowBuddhaU]

Not to my knowledge. Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism, to name just a few, are confessional faiths, meaning, you can decide to join. Hinduism and Judaism are examples of ethnic religions: you're born into them. Shinto, the national religion of Japan, is unique to Japan, although perhaps you can convert once you're there, I don't know.

Yes, there are exceptions. And nowadays, even though I don't understand it, people do convert to Judaism. But can one of the lower castes in India just decide to "upgrade"? No. You live the life you're born into.

The larger point here is, what's the function of a mythology? It functions as a second womb. Humans require more time to become adults in every sense than any other species.

A functioning mythology acts much like a kangaroo's pouch. The neonate climbs up its mothers belly, attaches itself to a nipple, and completes its gestation there.

Nursery rhymes, fairy tales, legend and lore--these all serve to protect us while at the same time enculturating and humanizing us.

Religion is a subordinate function of mythology. Some are run like exclusive country clubs; others, far more charitably. They all function for the benefit of their members.

The problem with absolutely exclusive groups is, they inhabit only half a world. Ideologues and religious fanatics alike doom themselves to denouncing and fleeing their own shadows.

[Horst]

There is too much religion in American politics. If a candidate said he is an atheist he'd be vilified and have no chance in winning. You'd think that in the 21st century a candidate wouldn't have to cloak him or herself in the phony mantra of Bronze Age nomadic desert prophets.

[knowBuddhaU]

Unbelievable! When was the Bronze Age, Horst?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age
The place and time of the invention of bronze are controversial. It is possible that bronzing was invented independently in the Maykop culture in the North Caucasus as far back as the mid 4th millennium BC, which would make them the makers of the oldest known bronze; but others date the same Maykop artifacts to the mid 3rd millennium BC.
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And the Bible?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament
Most scholars agree that the Hebrew Bible was composed and compiled between the 12th and the 2nd century BC,[1] before Jesus' birth.
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So you're only off by a couple thousand years! Where you getting your facts on religion, Bill Maher? Or do you even deal in facts at all?

On another thread, you say we're just a country of ignoramuses. I say again: speak for yourself!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/walter-williams-and-bryan-d-jones/deception_b_139040.html?show_comment_id=17447421#comment_17447421

[realistnotsocialist]

wow I wonder if those same people have ever picked up a newspaper or done any research on their own...most likely not so they lose.