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Donald Trump: Should We Take Him Seriously? (Now leads 2012 GOP Field by 9%)

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Deeper_Background, Apr 8, 2011.

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  1. Mark McGwire

    Mark McGwire Member

    Re: Donald Trump: Should We Take Him Seriously? (Now leads 2012 GOP Field)

    Because polling data shows that while normal conspiracy theories are plotted fairly evenly across demographic spreads, birthers are overwhelmingly white, southern, rabidly conservative and poorly educated. This isn't the Kennedy assasination.
     
    Mark McGwire, Apr 13, 2011
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  2. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Re: Donald Trump: Should We Take Him Seriously? (Now leads 2012 GOP Field)

    So, white, southern, conservative, and poorly educated people are racist?
     
    YankeeFan, Apr 13, 2011
    #170
  3. Mark McGwire

    Mark McGwire Member

    Re: Donald Trump: Should We Take Him Seriously? (Now leads 2012 GOP Field)

    You're cute. Really.

    Are more likely to be racist. Yup.
     
    Mark McGwire, Apr 13, 2011
    #171
  4. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Re: Donald Trump: Should We Take Him Seriously? (Now leads 2012 GOP Field)

    So, are they born that way?
     
    YankeeFan, Apr 13, 2011
    #172
  5. secretariat

    secretariat Active Member

    Re: Donald Trump: Should We Take Him Seriously? (Now leads 2012 GOP Field)

    Speaking of Mississippi specifically, which is full of white, southern, conservative and poorly educated people, a majority of that state's Republicans want to outlaw interracial marriage.

    Please don't make me go look for the link, but I assure you the poll just happened like last week.
     
    secretariat, Apr 13, 2011
    #173
  6. Mark McGwire

    Mark McGwire Member

    Re: Donald Trump: Should We Take Him Seriously? (Now leads 2012 GOP Field)

    Don't have any data on that, my Socratic Barista Wonder.
     
    Mark McGwire, Apr 13, 2011
    #174
  7. sportsguydave

    sportsguydave Active Member

    Re: Donald Trump: Should We Take Him Seriously? (Now leads 2012 GOP Field)

    Then to what do you attribute birtherism, Carlton?

    Besides utter stupidity, of course.
     
    sportsguydave, Apr 13, 2011
    #175
  8. Mark McGwire

    Mark McGwire Member

    Re: Donald Trump: Should We Take Him Seriously? (Now leads 2012 GOP Field)

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    Mark McGwire, Apr 13, 2011
    #176
  9. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    Re: Donald Trump: Should We Take Him Seriously? (Now leads 2012 GOP Field)

    Wish I still had the copy handy, but several months ago there was a poll -- AP, I think, but not positive -- that asked people if they believed Obama was born in the US. If the respondent said no, they asked where he was born.

    Only 7% of the birthers "correctly" answered Kenya.

    8% said Hawaii.
     
    PCLoadLetter, Apr 13, 2011
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  10. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Re: Donald Trump: Should We Take Him Seriously? (Now leads 2012 GOP Field)

    One last point about this. Comparisons to Kennedy assassination conspiracy beliefs are specious to the max. First, large majorities of Americans have held the belief Oswald did not act alone since the assassination itself -- including President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Second, the reason people believe this is not murky. Oswald got murdered in the basement of a police station on national TV!! That's not like "where's the birth certificate?" That's a shocking event that would make anyone suspicious of the official story.
    There is no equivalent event in the birther conspiracy that would explain why anyone would hold that belief. And I really do not understand why the conservatives on this board so desperately want to explain away the "event" that so obviously is the wellspring of this belief. You're not responsible for the prejudices of others, anymore than I am for statements of insanity by persons on the left.
     
    Michael_ Gee, Apr 13, 2011
    #178
  11. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Re: Donald Trump: Should We Take Him Seriously? (Now leads 2012 GOP Field)

    That could all be summed up by saying "MY conspiracy theory is different." :)
     
    RickStain, Apr 13, 2011
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  12. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    Re: Donald Trump: Should We Take Him Seriously? (Now leads 2012 GOP Field)

    I don't remember anybody questioning where George W. Bush was born.
     
    Smallpotatoes, Apr 13, 2011
    #180
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