Obama and the ‘Birthers’ in the Latest Poll
By DALIA SUSSMAN AND MARINA STEFAN
NYT
President Obama was born in Hawaii on Aug. 4, 1961. A scanned image of his birth certificate released during the 2008 presidential campaign says he was, and Hawaii’s health director and its registrar of vital statistics have confirmed it.
Despite all that, a substantial number of Americans are not convinced. In a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, 58 percent said Mr. Obama was born in the United States. That leaves a significant minority who said they thought he was born in another country (20 percent) or said they did not know (23 percent). (Question No. 50 in the poll.)
The issue continues to hold sway in some parts of the country, fueled in some cases by the Internet or by television talk shows. In follow-up interviews, some poll respondents were generally vague in explaining how they developed their doubts about Mr. Obama’s birth. The Constitution states that presidents must be natural born citizens, which respondents were informed of in the question posed to them.
Adding to the notion that those doubts still resonate, the Arizona House of Representatives on Monday approved an amendment that would require the president — or any candidate seeking the presidency — to produce an actual birth certificate to get on the ballot. So far, it’s a one-house bill.
(More here.)
NYT
President Obama was born in Hawaii on Aug. 4, 1961. A scanned image of his birth certificate released during the 2008 presidential campaign says he was, and Hawaii’s health director and its registrar of vital statistics have confirmed it.
Despite all that, a substantial number of Americans are not convinced. In a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, 58 percent said Mr. Obama was born in the United States. That leaves a significant minority who said they thought he was born in another country (20 percent) or said they did not know (23 percent). (Question No. 50 in the poll.)
The issue continues to hold sway in some parts of the country, fueled in some cases by the Internet or by television talk shows. In follow-up interviews, some poll respondents were generally vague in explaining how they developed their doubts about Mr. Obama’s birth. The Constitution states that presidents must be natural born citizens, which respondents were informed of in the question posed to them.
Adding to the notion that those doubts still resonate, the Arizona House of Representatives on Monday approved an amendment that would require the president — or any candidate seeking the presidency — to produce an actual birth certificate to get on the ballot. So far, it’s a one-house bill.
(More here.)
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