Despite all the publicity the phony madrassa story received, only six percent of voters wrongly identify Barack Obama as Muslim. That's good news -- I thought the number would be significantly higher.
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March 20, 2007
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Findings like this make me wonder whether some of the famous cases of American ignorance--Hussein's connected to 9/11, etc.--are really cases of badly worded questions or self-interested fake ignorance.
Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | March 20, 2007 at 08:59 AM