Brendan Nyhan makes a chart based on CNN’s latest polling of the question “Do you think Barack Obama was definitely born in the United States, probably born in the United States, probably born in another country, or definitely born in another country?”
The partisan gap is the noteworthy result here. I also wonder how much the very act of polling this question pushes people toward the “probably” categories who wouldn’t otherwise have had any doubts about Obama’s place of birth. After all, now that you ask me do I really really really really really know where Obama was born? Well, I don’t! It’s just that I have no reason to doubt the official story beyond crank conspiracy theorists. But then here’s CNN asking me about the controversy, so there must be some doubts, right?
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