{"id":462466,"date":"2010-03-23T13:30:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=74740"},"modified":"2010-03-23T13:30:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T17:30:48","slug":"new-harris-poll-finds-nearly-one-fourth-of-republicans-believe-obama-may-be-the-antichrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/462466","title":{"rendered":"New Harris Poll Finds Nearly One Fourth of Republicans Believe Obama May Be the Antichrist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_74741\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 252px\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-74741\" href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/03\/23\/new-harris-poll-finds-nearly-one-fourth-of-republicans-believe-obama-may-be-the-antichrist\/the_number_of_the_beast_is_666_philadelphia_rosenbach_museum_and_library\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74741\" title=\"The_number_of_the_beast_is_666_Philadelphia,_Rosenbach_Museum_and_Library\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/03\/The_number_of_the_beast_is_666_Philadelphia_Rosenbach_Museum_and_Library-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured: President Obama, as imagined by Republicans<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>No, this isn&#8217;t an <em>Onion<\/em> headline. Yes, it is yet another poll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2010-03-22\/scary-new-gop-poll\/?cid=hp:exc\">that shows Republicans are out of their fucking minds.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p><strong>On the heels of health care, a new Harris poll reveals  Republican attitudes about Obama: Two-thirds think he&#8217;s a socialist, 57  percent a Muslim\u2014and 24 percent say &#8220;he may be the Antichrist.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In fairness, that question was clearly designed to make conservatives look bad. I mean, it&#8217;s completely possible that Obama <em>may<\/em> be the Antichrist. Has anyone thoroughly checked him for the Mark of the Beast? How can really we be sure?<\/p>\n<p>Other findings\u00a0 of the Harris poll, due out tomorrow, include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>67 percent of Republicans (and 40 percent of Americans overall) believe  that Obama is a socialist<\/li>\n<li>45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the Birthers  in their  belief that Obama was &#8220;not born in the United States and so is  not eligible to be president&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama is &#8220;doing  many of the things that Hitler did&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised that only about half of the polled Goopers are birthers &#8212; that feels low to me.<\/p>\n<p>But we shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that nearly 40% think he&#8217;s the second coming of Adolf Hitler, since elected Republicans and clowns like Glenn Beck and the Pantload make the comparison often.<\/p>\n<p>Nice party you&#8217;ve got there, GOP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagList\">Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/obama\/\" rel=\"tag\">Obama<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/republicans\/\" rel=\"tag\">Republicans<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/wingnuttia\/\" rel=\"tag\">Wingnuttia<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=74740&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_74740\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured: President Obama, as imagined by Republicans No, this isn&#8217;t an Onion headline. Yes, it is yet another poll that shows Republicans are out of their fucking minds. On the heels of health care, a new Harris poll reveals Republican attitudes about Obama: Two-thirds think he&#8217;s a socialist, 57 percent a Muslim\u2014and 24 percent say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}