Poll: Half of Iowa Republicans don't believe Barack Obama was born in U.S. Read more

[Dan82]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53417.html

Donald Trump’s birther crusade could be a boon in Iowa, and “Romneycare” could dog the former Massachusetts governor in the first-in-the-nation caucus, a new poll shows.

A whopping 48 percent of Iowa Republicans said they don’t believe that Obama was born in the United States, according to the automated survey by Democratic firm Public Policy Polling out Tuesday. Another 26 percent said they weren’t sure whether or not the president was born in America as the Constitution requires to be eligible to serve in the nation’s highest office...



http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53417.html

[Emberstone]

so 48% of iowa republicans have suffered self-inflicted brain damage should surprise us.

all it takes if 30 seconds to google the fact that hawaii's birth certificates are 'certificates of live birth', and another 30 to google the two years ago released certificate of live birth for barrack obama.

if those two facts dont click in your brain, then your brain is defective.

[Holmes]

I'd say some proportion of those people don't realise it would be a constitutional issue if he were foreign-born and when they hear the question, just think "yeah, I heard something about that".