A new poll shows only 26 percent of Republicans in Iowa believe President Obama was born in the United States.
![]() President Barack Obama in the Oval Office April 4, 2011 |
The survey taken by Public Policy Polling indicates a massive 48 percent of GOP voters in the Hawkeye State don't think Obama was born in the U.S., with another 26 percent saying they were unsure.
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That means about 3 in 4 Republican voters in the important caucus state doubt the commander in chief is being truthful about his claim that he was born in Hawaii.
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The results concerning Obama in Iowa is similar to a national poll two months ago by the same firm showing only 3 in 10 members of the GOP believe that Barack Obama was born in the U.S.
That February survey revealed only 28 percent of Republicans believe Obama was born in the U.S., while 51 percent do not, and another 21 percent said they were not sure.
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"Any thought that the birther theory has been put to rest can be thrown out the window," Dean Debnam, president of the Democratic polling firm, said at the time.
The issues of Obama's precise birthplace and his constitutional eligibility for the White House have been gaining steam in recent weeks, as possible Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been making numerous media appearances, demanding to see Obama's long-form, hospital-specified birth certificate, suggesting Obama's entire presidency might be "illegal."
![]() Copy of original long-form birth certificate of Susan Nordyke, born in Honolulu the day after Obama's reported birthdate. Obama has never produced any document like this. |
The new survey of 419 Republicans in mid-April included questioning about preferred GOP candidates among Iowa Republicans, and Trump finished in third place with 14 percent support, trailing former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee who took in 27 percent, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney who collected 16 percent.
"Iowa still loves Mike Huckabee," said Debnam. "If he doesn't get into the race, Mitt Romney will be the nominal frontrunner in the state. One person Iowa Republicans definitely aren't too interested in right now is Donald Trump."
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All other candidates registered in single digits with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich tied with "Someone else/Undecided" at 9 percent, followed by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at 8 percent, Reps. Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann tied at 6 percent, and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty at 5 percent.
As WND reported this month, Tim Adams, the former Hawaii elections official who maintains there's no long-form
birth certificate for Barack Obama in the Aloha State, is now saying the
president and his aides have been "caught fibbing" about Obama's
background, and the "embarrassing" situation is making it difficult to
fess up to the truth.
Questions about Obama's eligibility to be president have been exacerbated by his refusal to answer questions and release ordinary background documentation and his extraordinary legal maneuvers to keep his background hidden.
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The Constitution requires a president to be a "natural-born citizen," which is not the same as a "citizen."
Fritz Wenzel of Wenzel Strategies has warned, "Simply put, this question about Obama's legitimacy as president is undermining everything he does in the minds of millions of Americans."
It was only a few months after Obama's inauguration that a WND/Wenzel Poll
showed that 51.3 percent of Americans said they were aware of the
questions raised about Obama's constitutional eligibility for office.
Only 18.7 percent said they were not and another 30 percent were
unsure.
At that point, 58.2 percent of the GOP said they were aware of the controversy.
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Polls since then have shown Americans to be increasingly skeptical of Obama's official narrative:
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A survey by Angus Reid Global Monitor, a division of Vision Critical Group, in October 2009 found three in 10 people in the U.S. believed Obama to be a foreigner.
"While
only 13 percent of Democratic Party supporters believe Obama was not
born in the U.S., the proportion rises to 25 percent among independents
and 51 percent among Republican Party backers," the report said. -
Then in January 2010, another WND/Wenzel Poll
revealed on the one-year anniversary of Obama's tenure in office that
fully one-third of Americans refused to believe Obama was a "legitimate
president," with another 15.8 percent saying they were not sure.Barely half the voters, 51.5 percent, said they believed the president
legitimate even though he had not yet produced the documentation
proving his constitutional eligibility. Even 14.6 percent of the
Democrats said they did not consider him legitimate. -
In May 2010, a WND/Wenzel Poll revealed that 55 percent of Americans wanted Obama to release all records
relating to his childhood and his education, including "college
records, Harvard Law School papers, passport records, travel records,
and other similar documentation.""Asked what should be done should it be found that Obama does not meet
the qualifications to be president, 59 percent said he should be
removed from office, and 35 percent said all bills signed into law by
Obama should be repealed," the poll's analysis revealed. -
By last June, other media were beginning to put their toes in the waters of the controversy.
A 60 Minutes-Vanity Fair poll revealed only 39 percent of respondents
believe Obama was born in Hawaii as he claimed in his book."A shocking 63 percent – very nearly two-thirds of us – went out on a
limb and stated for the record that we believe in the United States.
It's enough to make you proud to be an American – or 63 percent proud,
at any rate."But that figure included those who said they believe he was born in
Kansas or some other unknown state, which still would conflict with
Obama's story. -
Last August, a poll by CNN
said 6 of 10 people were uncertain Obama was born in the U.S. The poll
said only 42 percent believe Obama "definitely" was born in the U.S.The CNN report said that, "Hawaii has released a copy of the
president's birth certificate – officially called a 'certificate of
live birth.' And in 1961 the hospital where the president was born
placed announcements in two Hawaiian newspapers regarding Obama's
birth."However, the online image released by the Obama campaign during his
presidential race actually is called a "Certification of Live Birth,"
and those documents under the rules in the state of Hawaii were
available for children not born in the state.
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