Not content to spend money on a poll that didn't generate a lot of news, WND spun other results into something more newsworthy -- if false:
It may be the issue few in the media dare address, but a new scientific public opinion survey of a cross-section of Americans shows they are not only aware of questions about Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility for office, but almost half are either "troubled" by the questions or believe he should release all relevant documents including his long-form birth certificate.
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"Our polling shows that the questions surrounding Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president clearly strike a nerve across America, probably because it is a problem that everybody understands," said pollster Fritz Wenzel. "Every American citizen has a birth certificate, and once in a while we all have to produce them to get a drivers license or gain entrance to school. Everyone understands the simple rules – if you don't produce it, you don't get in. And while Obama did get in to the White House, nearly half the country's adults –- 49 percent –- are troubled by this issue and still want him to produce his official long-form birth certificate."
Except they aren't. Not if you read WND's own polling data correctly. At his War Room blog at Salon, Alex Koppelman dug through the data and found that a whopping 8% -- to be exact, 7.8% -- actually said they were "troubled" by the issue. WND gets their 49% figure by including those who say that Obama should release all the documents the birthers want. So they get their number by including 41% who never said they were "troubled" -- who knows, maybe they want the documents released (not knowing those documents don't actually exist -- not for Obama nor anyone else) because they want the birthers to finally shut up... [CLICK TO READ FULL POST]
