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Poll: 48% Of Iowa Republicans Say Obama Wasn’t Born In U.S. (and 26% 'Not Sure')
Mediaite via TPM ^ | 04/19/2011 | Jon Terbush

Posted on 04/19/2011 9:50:51 AM PDT by nhwingut

Nearly half of usual Republican primary voters in Iowa think President Obama was not born in the United States, while barely one-quarter believe he was, according to a PPP poll released on Tuesday.

In the poll, 48% of registered Republican voters said Obama was not born in the U.S., while 26% said he was. Additionally, 26% said they were unsure.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; iowa; obama
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To: RitaOK

whatever you think about his politics,
the Donald needs to be supported on
this issue and now! The primaries are
far off, and we can’t take another two
years of this communist bastard


21 posted on 04/19/2011 10:40:33 AM PDT by paythefiddler (redefeat communism)
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To: attiladhun2
Let’s quit with the birth certificate already. I think the WH is purposely keeping this issue alive because it is nothing more than a distraction. We should be nailing Zero on Obamacare, the looming economic distruction of the United States, and his Marxist and radical associations.

Perhaps the focus should be more general? Let's get Obama's past on record. How did he do in college? Release the high school and college transcripts.

I'd like to see Sarah Palin's transcripts (and I know they won't be perfect since she was paying her own way), and DeMint's if he runs, and Bachmann's, and those of any RINO (yeah, even Romney and the Huckster). Make a production of the fact that releasing records on their past is an important part of disclosure and understanding the whole person. Release a full, long-form birth certificate and a full college transcript on every candidate except Obama, and there sill be more pressure to comply with the legitimate request to release the transcripts. That leaves an obvious hole if Obama refuses to release his transcripts, and even if he releases them but doesn't release the long-form bc.

22 posted on 04/19/2011 10:41:35 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Georgia Girl 2; RitaOK

I think he’s pretty much p..sed off with Gov. Jan Brewer, and probably also re-loading!!!


23 posted on 04/19/2011 10:41:59 AM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: LucyT

Ping!!!


24 posted on 04/19/2011 10:44:34 AM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: EternalVigilance

Obama will not be defeated on this issue. Period. So why do you want to keep it going? This is equivalent to the “Bush-arranged-911-to-get-the-oil” theory floated by the left and some tinfoil-hat libertarians like Jesse Ventura. Did that get Kerry elected?


25 posted on 04/19/2011 10:45:49 AM PDT by attiladhun2 (The Free World has a new leader--his name is Benjamin Netanyahu)
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To: attiladhun2
Perhaps the focus should be more general? Let's get Obama's past on record. How did he do in college? Release the high school and college transcripts.

I'd like to see Sarah Palin's transcripts (and I know they won't be perfect since she was paying her own way), and DeMint's if he runs, and Bachmann's, and those of any RINO (yeah, even Romney and the Huckster). Make a production of the fact that releasing records on their past is an important part of disclosure and understanding the whole person. Release a full, long-form birth certificate and a full college transcript on every candidate except Obama, and there will be more pressure to comply with the legitimate request to release the transcripts. That leaves an obvious hole if Obama refuses to release his transcripts, and even if he releases them but doesn't release the long-form bc.

[Note: I'm posting this on several threads because I think this tactic may make a difference in saving America and I want to hear feedback.]

26 posted on 04/19/2011 10:46:02 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: attiladhun2
Obama will not be defeated on this issue. Period. So why do you want to keep it going?

Adherence to the oath of office to defend the Constitution of the United States.

Ever hear of that?

27 posted on 04/19/2011 10:48:32 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The GOP has jumped the Trump.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Defeating Obama on the issues will do more to defend the Constitution than harping on birth certificates.


28 posted on 04/19/2011 10:48:53 AM PDT by attiladhun2 (The Free World has a new leader--his name is Benjamin Netanyahu)
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To: Polybius; nhwingut
Our goal should be to ensure that Obama is NOT reelected in 2012.

Do YOU have a clandestine recipe as how we secure that goal???

With present GOP "candidates"(?), LOL!!!

29 posted on 04/19/2011 10:52:55 AM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: attiladhun2

Obama despises the Constitution.

Why should I care about Republicans who despise it too?

If they won’t keep their oaths, what else matters?


30 posted on 04/19/2011 10:53:29 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The GOP has jumped the Trump.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Would good is an oath of office if Zero is re-elected, and he doubles down on government takeovers of businesses, government regulations, TSA gropefests and peepshows, slushfunds for ACORN, & more Commie and Sharia-compliant judges, etc.


31 posted on 04/19/2011 10:55:57 AM PDT by attiladhun2 (The Free World has a new leader--his name is Benjamin Netanyahu)
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To: Polybius
BORN IN THE USA? CNN's bad news for Obama: 6 of 10 doubt U.S. birth story

Whatever the strategy, this is just another arrow in our quiver to go after Obama. I see no real down side. We need to attack Obama's personal narrative, whether it is associations with racists, terrorists, and crooks, or his BC, or his failure to disclose his school transcripts, medical records, etc. The GOP made this off-limits in 2008. It is not a distraction, but a necessity that we go after him personally. The emperor has no clothes.

32 posted on 04/19/2011 10:59:23 AM PDT by kabar
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To: attiladhun2

A distraction to whom? The burden of proof is on Obama.


33 posted on 04/19/2011 11:00:56 AM PDT by kabar
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To: RitaOK

Exactly. What Trump has done now is to make many people think that “if there’s smoke, there must be fire.”


34 posted on 04/19/2011 11:01:31 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: attiladhun2

What difference does it make if the Republicans do exactly the same things?


35 posted on 04/19/2011 11:04:35 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The GOP has jumped the Trump.)
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To: attiladhun2
So why do you want to keep it going? This is equivalent to the “Bush-arranged-911-to-get-the-oil” theory floated by the left and some tinfoil-hat libertarians like Jesse Ventura. Did that get Kerry elected?

Kerry, with all of his faults as a lousy candidate, almost won despite going up an incumbent war time President. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth saved the Gop's sorry ass by torpedoing Kerry's phony Vietnam hero narrative. It froze him like a deer in the headlights for almost a month. Rove, a legned in his own mind, criticized the SBVFT as did McCain.

36 posted on 04/19/2011 11:06:07 AM PDT by kabar
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To: attiladhun2

You can do both, just like the Democrats do.


37 posted on 04/19/2011 11:07:08 AM PDT by kabar
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To: paythefiddler; danamco; georgia girl; outhousepatrol

The Trump has dared to take the politically riskiest question on the face of the political landscape, blow past all the others who are spineless to speak of it, and not only herald it but go entirely in-your-face, not to the safe ground conservative media and conservative crowds but in-your-face to the Leftist media, and right up the steps into the White House Obama Oval Office. SPECFRIGGIN’TACULAR!

I haven’t seen courage like this since Custer! ha.


38 posted on 04/19/2011 11:13:13 AM PDT by RitaOK
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To: attiladhun2
We should be nailing Zero on Obamacare, the looming economic distruction of the United States, and his Marxist and radical associations.

HOW? The GOP was holding all the cards by attaching the rider DEFUNDING OBAMACARE in the CR. What did they do? Boenher announces that he will not shut down the Government over a CR. Will the GOP fight using the DEBT CEILING as a tool to extract defunding of OBAMACARE? They certainly could, and blame Reid's Senate for a no vote on Debt Ceiling. BUT DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH......
39 posted on 04/19/2011 11:27:51 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: EternalVigilance

Hi EV,

I worry that the entire detailed understanding of “Natural Born Citizen” as understood by the founder’s era citizenry that ratified the Constitution is lost in the weeds of the more yes-or-no issue of a formal Birth Certificate.

If a Long Form is produced, the vast bulk of the electorate will consider the issue closed since this has been reduced to a “birth certicate” issue by the “birthers” as far as all media reports reference it.

If Barack Sr. is shown to be his father, he was never a citizen and the whole BC issue doesn’t resolve a single thing. But when one is produced in October, the issue will look like an Obama WIN. Furthermore, if the marriage was invalid at the time of his birth and no father is declared on the BC proving HI birth, it will be harder to say he is not Natural Born.

Once the Democrats and Republicans ignored it and elected and inaugarated him, the issue was lost as it was never addressed by an honest media in time for an understanding to develop.


40 posted on 04/19/2011 11:42:36 AM PDT by KC Burke
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