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Originally Posted by FuglyStick
I don't understand the discrepancy here. 18% of those polled believe the president is a Muslim. Is that or is that not the result of the poll?
If you want to take issue with the pool of poll participants, that's fine; there is a margin of error in every poll. But the results speak for themselves, in the context of the poll.
And frankly, what's your point? That these poll results are skewed? Anyone who has paid any attention to the media in the last few months should not find these results to be unfathomable.
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Small sample size is not to be taken as a verified experimental statistic for what the whole of Americans believe.
Fact: 1 in 8 Americans are not actually American citizens. It's up to you whether you believe this or not. I just made it up. But is it so farfetched?
It's a fact, nonetheless: totally unsubstantiated, yet not totally disproven. It's a
skewed fact.
Plus, you're title is wrong: where in the article does it state that 60+ million Americans (1 in 5) believe that Obama, in is fact, a Muslim?
Are they referring to his ethnicity, or his religion? And I believe it is just a widespread inference you are touting that Muslim ~ terrorist, as that was no where stated explicitly in the poll's / article / ABCNews' findings.
Last bit: who cares? Polls suck.
Polls troll.