Why Boehner and other GOP Leaders Must Pander to Birthers
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With 51% of GOP respondents believing that President Obama is not a US citizen it’s no wonder they pander. The RINO hunters did a great job of driving all the sane adults out of the party 2006-present.
Birtherism is alive and well within the GOP ranks, and their 2012 nominee preferences tell a story about the difficulty Mitt Romney faces in trying to appeal to an electorate that’s a whole lot further out there than he is.
Birthers make a majority among those voters who say they’re likely to participate in a Republican primary next year. 51% say they don’t think Barack Obama was born in the United States to just 28% who firmly believe that he was and 21% who are unsure. The GOP birther majority is a new development. The last time PPP tested this question nationally, in August of 2009, only 44% of Republicans said they thought Obama was born outside the country while 36% said that he definitely was born in the United States. If anything birtherism is on the rise.
