{"id":391,"date":"2008-04-02T09:11:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T13:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2008-04-02T09:11:12","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T13:11:12","slug":"what-we-learn-from-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"What we learn from polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via <em>Crooked Timber,<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/reports\/display.php3?PageID=1277\">the purest possible illustration<\/a> of the thesis that to many Americans &#8220;<em>Muslim<\/em>&#8221; means &#8220;<em>dark and dangerous<\/em>&#8220;, nothing more:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>There is little evidence that the recent news about Obama&#8217;s affiliation with the United Church of Christ has dispelled the impression that he is Muslim. While voters who heard &#8220;a lot&#8221; about Reverend Wright&#8217;s controversial sermons are more likely than those who have not to correctly identify Obama as a Christian, they are not substantially less likely to still believe that he is Muslim. Nearly one-in-ten (9%) of those who heard a lot about Wright still believe that Obama is Muslim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>For the record, slightly &#8212; very slightly &#8212; more than 53% of Americans believe that Obama is a Christian. This should tell us aquite a lot about the so-called persecution of atheists in America.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Crooked Timber, the purest possible illustration of the thesis that to many Americans &#8220;Muslim&#8221; means &#8220;dark and dangerous&#8220;, nothing more: There is little evidence that the recent news about Obama&#8217;s affiliation with the United Church of Christ has dispelled &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=391\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=391\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}