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Friday, October 31, 2008 , Updated

Survey done by University of Texas on upcoming presidential election reveals Texans to be twice as dumb as rest of country

by PegNews wire

A survey of 550 registered voters in Texas done by the University of Texas shows Republican presidential candidate John McCain leading over Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama by 51 to 40 percent, and Republican Senator John Cornyn leading Democrat Rick Noriega by 45 to 36 percent. Predictably.

But here's a surprising bit of idiocy: 23 percent of Texans polled think Barack Obama is a Muslim. FYI, he's a Protestant.

In the rest of the country, where people aren't complete morons, polls show that only 5 to 10 percent believe Obama is a Muslim.

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Billusa99, says:

It also begs the bigger question: So what if he was Muslim?!

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Pavel Lishin, says:

I feel like a hypocrite. I would have no problem voting for a hypothetical Muslim candidate for a public office, but I'm pretty sure I would not give my vote to a Mormon.

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Seanchai520, says:

Well, if he was Muslim, we wouldn’t have to worry about him singing his favorite Beach Boys’ song “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran.”

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luniz, says:

I agree the "good Christian" thing is pretty irritating. Why hasn't anybody in the media even commented on that? So far Colin Powell is the only person who's even mentioned it.

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Seanchai520, says:

If the media commented on the “good Christian,” or the Vietnam hero who stated that he gave up military information to his interrogators and signed a confession stating that "I am a black criminal and I have performed the deeds of an air pilot,” the media source making the comment would be completely chastised and deemed non-patriotic. POW families were extremely angered when they saw McCain actually bonding with his former torturers, especially Col. Bui Tin, a former senior colonel in the North Vietnamese Army who had actually interrogated McCain and other U.S. prisoners, during and after the 1992 Senate Select Committee hearings on POW/MIA Affairs, but their anger did not receive very much media attention because that topic was not deemed “patriotic.” A media source raising these types of issues would be totally demonized and called a Marxist or Socialist. However, it must be ok to attack an individual based on race and/or religion nowadays.

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goodygoodyumyum, says:

as a good unitarian, wtf? people here in dallas have no idea what to do with me, i should just offer them a flower and totally blow their minds!

i am so over it all, voted this week. i've stopped listening to all the balogna. wish someone would ask me - i'd skew that poll.

i do love the idea that "i can see russia from my house!" 150k and we'd all look good.

loves the obama, loves the fact that someone can speak- let's all listen, shall we?

quick, name a newspaper....

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MattDillion41, says:

So only Republicans and Texans are stupid? How about the Obama supporter that I heard at one of his events who stated Mr. Obama was going to pay her mortgage and fill up her car with gas? That person lived in Iowa. I know everyone thinks he is the Messiah, but I have news for you. You think it is bad now? The worse is yet to come.

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ch0, says:

I just redeemed my Obama gascard yesterday. And with prices at only $2.19 on my street, that was a GREAT boon for my guzzling SUV. I went mudding today just for kicks, then drove the entire length of Beltline. What's the problem? Vote for 100 more years of bombing brown folks! Yay

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Clay213, says:

MattDillion41 Anonymous

So only Republicans and Texans are stupid?

Twice as dumb as the rest still leaves plenty of dumb to go around...

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Jason Rice, says:

So Clay, where on earth do you suppose the left gets a rep for elitism? Sure couldn't be in the tone of sneer. eh?

I'd personally never vote Muslin. It's impossible to keep pressed and the last thing we need is a dry cleaning deficit. But at least we're not talking Linen. Ok, maybe we are.

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Pavel Lishin, says:

http://isbarackobamamuslin.com/

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Chris Kidd, says:

Everyone was in this same kind of idiots tizzy back in 1992-93 when clinton took office. I think we're seeing the same right wing idiots coming out of the woodwork and talking up the whole "doom and gloom" about gun control, property rights,ect...If we're going to be honest, we've lost more personal rights under the bush administraton than in any other pres. admin in the post-ww2 era. While the right-leaning idiots should be in an uproar, they take it as gospel.

I apologize, but I had to say my piece about my fellow Texans, who cant seem to think for themselves and take whatever lies the right-wingers spit out...

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alexander troup, says:

When it's time to sing the blues, who can do it, 7 years have passed and the red of this decade has been about one kind of life style vrs another... and now a new life style comes about as cryptic as we can discuss, but we all know, one way of life is soon to end forever, maybe....A.T, Suthsayer.