Ignorance, Partisanship Drive False Beliefs about Obama, Iraq

False beliefs about the invasion of Iraq and President Obama’s citizenship still flourish among Americans, according to the most recent national survey from Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind. More than four-in-ten Americans say it is likely that U.S. forces found active weapons of mass destruction program in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, and nearly a fifth say that President Obama “probably” or “definitely” is not a citizen of the United States.

Beliefs like these are strongly connected with partisanship and media choices, with Republicans and Fox News viewers being more likely to endorse them, but conspiracies thrive elsewhere, as well: twenty percent of non-white Americans, for instance, think that the Secret Service is intentionally leaving Obama unprotected. CONT.

Fairleigh Dickinson University

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