(Rasmussen) – On a list of some of the world’s
best-known conspiracy theories, Americans are most likely to believe the one
about JFK‘s assassination. But President George W. Bush and President Obama
don’t escape suspicion.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone
survey finds that just 45% of American Adults reject as false the theory that
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by more than one shooter. Thirty-two
percent (32%) believe more than one shooter was involved in the 1963
assassination in Dallas, and another 23% are undecided.
Last November, on the 50th anniversary of the
assassination, 36% of adults said Kennedy was the victim of a lone gunman, but
just as many (37%) said he was the victim of a larger conspiracy.
One-in-four adults (24%) are convinced that
the U.S. government knew in advance about the September 11, 2001 terrorist
attacks and did nothing to stop them, and 19% more are not sure. Only 57% say
that conspiracy theory is false.
Just as many (23%) say the theory that Obama
is not an American citizen is true, with another 17% who aren’t sure. Sixty
percent (60%) reject that theory as false.
Interestingly, however, more Americans (82%)
are willing to declare as false the theory that Paul McCartney was killed in a
car crash in 1966 and replaced by the Beatles than are willing to reject any of
the other conspiracy theories we asked about.
The survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted on
July 16-17, 2014 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3
percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen
Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.
See methodology
Twenty percent (20%) of Americans believe in
the theory that a UFO carrying space aliens on board crashed near Roswell, New
Mexico in 1947, and a sizable 33% more are not sure. Fewer than half (47%)
reject that theory.
Past surveys show that a majority of
Americans believe there is intelligent life on other planets.
How about the U.S. landing on the moon – true
or false? Fourteen percent (14%) think the United States faked it, but just as
many (12%) are undecided. Two years ago at the time of astronaut Neil
Armstrong’s death, only five percent (5%) said the moon landing was staged, and
seven percent (7%) weren’t sure.
A similar percentage (13%) believe Princess
Diana was killed by the British Royal Family, but add another 20% who are
undecided.
Americans are much less convinced of three
other conspiracies on the list. Just eight percent (8%) believe in the theory
that the AIDS virus was created in a laboratory by the Central Intelligence
Agency, with 20% more undecided.
The same number (8%) think William Shakespeare
is not the real author of the plays that are attributed to him, but when you
add the 36% who aren’t sure, it’s clear there’s sizable doubt about the
authorship of “Hamlet,” “Macbeth” and the others.
Only three percent (3%) think McCartney was
killed and replaced by an equally talented imposter. Fifteen percent (15%) are
undecided.
In general, men are more likely than women to
believe most of the conspiracy theories.
Americans 40 and over are more likely than
younger adults to believe JFK was assassinated by more than one shooter.
Twenty-four percent (24%) of Democrats and 29%
of those not affiliated with either major political party believe the
government knew about 9/11, but only 17% of Republicans agree. Roughly
one-in-five adults in all three groups are undecided.
Forty-one
percent (41%) of Republicans believe Obama is not an American citizen, compared
to 21% of unaffiliateds and 11% of Democrats. Just over 20% of Republicans and
unaffiliated adults also are not sure, but only seven percent (7%) of those in
the president’s party share that doubt.
Source:
http://www.teaparty.org/shock-poll-40-still-sure-obama-american-citizen-48593/
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Comments
Democrats obviously believe that “natural born citizen”
means that it’s ok of one of their parents were, at one time, American
Citizens. They ignore the “both parents
need to be U.S. citizens” part. Harvard
thought he was a foreign student. I
think he is a Muslim Indonesian citizen using a forged birth certificate and
someone else’s social security number, i.e. an illegal alien.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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