re: #538 _RememberTonyC

Has anyone heard any polling numbers on the demographic makeup of the “birthers?” Since the birthers (IMHO) are the most deranged of the Obama haters, I’d like to know how many Dems and Independents makeup “birther nation?” I couldn’t find anything on that.

here’s a clip from the Washington Post:

Fifteen percent of self-identified Democrats said cited solid evidence (six percent), suspicions (seven percent) or no opinion (one percent) about whether the President was born in the U.S. Thirty-one percent of Republicans had suspicions (19 percent) or solid evidence (11 percent) that Obama was not born in the country.

So while it shows that more republicans than democrats are birthers, it also shows that perhaps one in three birthers are democrats, and that is not an insignificant percentage. And Independents surely are also represented in the birther movement. So I think all of us need to chill out about only people to the right being crazy on this issue.