Poll: 27% Of Americans Doubt Obama's Citizenship -- Including 41% of Republicans

"In your country club, your church and business, about 15 percent of the people are screwballs, lightweights and boobs and you would not want those people unrepresented in Congress”

Former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-WY)

He's wrong. It's not 15%. It's 27%

Good to know there are responsible conservative leaders who are out there distancing themselves from this kind of paranoid conspiracy thinking...right?

Oh wait, nevermind. There are no sane leaders on the right anymore, even if there are, they are hiding from sight, afraid of the wrath of slobbering morons who listen to Limpballs and Beck.

Witness the final implosion of the political right.

It's been this way since at least the days of Watergate. This is about the percentage who still supported Nixon after the smoking gun tape hit the fan, as mentioned, the same as still support W, these are the wingnut dead-enders. Whatever their guy does, it's OK, regardless of the clusterfuck left behind, they're immune to facts and logical argument, we're never going to convert even one of them, and they'd be this delusional even without Faux news. Leave them to their own alternate universe and let's concentrate on the next generations so this sub-species might die out over time.

these people are morons and it is a waste of time to report their inane opinions

It is too simplistic to identify these people as morons or stupid. This is and has been thru the long history of America the faction that holds to racial superiority and the belief that they are the excectional creation of god (their god. They will never except a black person based only the content of their character,or individual acheivement. They themselves must always have an advantage based on their "superior" station in life. They abhor repecting a man (if he is not like them) that is a success, that is why they hate what Barak Obama represents. They have never recognized my black forefathers as Americans and they will never recognize any black person as "truely American"

I would write more but I can't stop shaking my head from side to side in disbelief and disgust.

That shows you how dumb Republicans are, the think Hawaii is a foreign country.

I think the explanation remains that a document exists (or existed back in 1961) that would (the birthers claim) "settle the issue", that this document has not been seen in public, and that the refusal to show it has not really been explained.

The initial suspicion is compounded by the fact that some journalists (including here at TPM) tell their readers that it actually has been made public. There may be good reason not to show it or the public may have no right to see it or something. But the doubts about this, I think, arise because people are being told they've seen something they know they haven't seen. (Namely, that handwritten or typed 1961-style birth certificate.) They feel like they are being lied to.

It used to be that 2 per cent of people would always respond to any poll question, such as, "what is your name", with "I don't know". Republican dumbing-down efforts are really working magic.

I think those with undiagnosed mental health issues total just about 20% in any society.