A new YouGov Poll queried 1,000 nationwide adults between February 8th and 10th to see if the idea that President Obama was not born in the United States is still alive in this country -- and sadly it is. The survey, which has a margin of error of 4 points, showed that 38% still say the president was not born in this country.You may wonder how anyone can believe that at this point in time -- after birth certificates have been produced and verified by the Hawaiian state government, and newspaper accounts of that time reported the birth. But the survey asked another question that turned out to be very revealing. They asked of those who said he was not born in the U.S. -- Are you positive? It turns out that 61% of those "birthers" admitted that it was possible that he was born in the United States.
It turns out that most of the birthers are not guided by reality, but by their hatred of the president (racism?). And because they don't like him, they are willing to jump on the birthed bandwagon even though they know it probably isn't true. I think most of us have suspected this for quite a while -- that the birtherism was just thinly disguised racial hatred.
