Ten O'Nine and Eight Seconds
10/09/08: new york post:
https://nypost.com/2008/10/09/poll-rumors-flying-in-election/
" A vast majority of adults in the US have heard rumors about Barack Obama and John McCain, according to a new survey, and many of them found the rumors believable.
About 94 percent of adult Americans have heard at least one obviously false rumor about the major presidential candidates, according to a first-of-its kind national survey of 1,015 adults conducted by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University.
The most common rumors swirled around Obama’s religion, with 89 percent of those polled saying they had heard he was Muslim, and nearly two-thirds said they found the rumor believable.
More than half heard that Obama refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance or to display the flag, even though he usually wears a flag pin on his lapel.
Two-thirds of all people who had heard rumors that Obama is the anti-Christ said it’s “very unlikely” that anyone would believe such rumors.
Rumors are flying on both sides of the aisle.
People were asked if they had heard McCain had been brainwashed as a POW during the Vietnam War. One third of the people had heard this and nearly half said it’s “very likely” or “somewhat likely” that it would be believed.
Fewer had heard that the Republican candidate fathered a black child (a rumor that helped cost McCain the critical 2000 South Carolina primary), or that he’s senile.