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| Time poll found 46% (!) of Republicans endorsed Obama Muslim myth. Pew estimate was 31% for GOP, but it had diff. wording http://j.mp/dob7uV | |
| Poll: 46% of GOP thinks Obama's Muslim - Josh Gerstein - POLITICO.com Josh Gerstein: Under the Radar, Overlooked News on the Courts, Transparency & More | ||
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| Dear pundits: We know it's August, but please stop talking about Hillary as VP. Not happening, wouldn't matter anyway. http://j.mp/dA153d | |
 David Ignatius - A president in need of a political spark Last January, President Obama made a tellingly unpolitical comment to ABC's Diane Sawyer : "I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president." | ||
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| Political scientists Gelman, Lax, and Phillips estimate state-level support for gay marriage in the NYT http://j.mp/aP2k85 | |
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| Listen to @smotus: "The [party] 'message' is just a media narrative and will largely be written after the fact anyway." http://j.mp/9TAVLs | |
| Enik Rising: The message | ||
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| RT @mattyglesias Obama to blame for Muslim misperception because he said in 1985 that his grandfather was Muslim: http://bit.ly/aVh5lc | |
 The Obama Muslim Confusion - The Corner - National Review Online Kathryn Jean Lopez writes on NRO: Byron York rewinds: In 1985, Barack Obama had just arrived in Chicago for his new job as a community organizer when he headed to Smitty’s Barbershop, a tiny storefront on the South Side. As Smitty cut his hair, Obama listened to the men in the shop talk politics and racial grievance. . . . | ||
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| Yes, people have many implausible beliefs http://j.mp/dxJYnK But Muslim myth has consequences for politics that ESP/witches/etc. doesn't | |
| Matthew Yglesias » Things People Believe | ||
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I was hoping Brendan's link would tell what consequences for politics the Muslim myth has that ESP/witches/etc. don't, and also how he knows it's the case.
How would one research this question? I can imagine 3 classes of people affected by the myth:
• Some people may feel more negative toward someone they think is Islamic.
• Some people may feel more positive toward someone they think is Islamic (particularly Muslims!)
• Some people may feel that conservative belief in this myth shows that liberals are mentally superior to conservatives.
Any study of the political impact of the myth should measure the size of each of these groups and how big an impact the myth has on them.
I suspect that the third group is the most significant, because I see main stream liberal media folks going on and on about the myth, even though excessive attention to the myth may tend to spread it.
Posted by: David in Cal | August 23, 2010 at 10:10 AM