North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map

Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @05:43PM (#16119844)

And the flaw in your analysis is that only a handful of people thought that Obama was literally a half breed Antichrist from Kenya, while over half the country thinks that Trump is the worst president ever. (Even some people who normally vote Republican think that.)

They're really not the same.

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Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map by scarmig on Thursday January 11, 2018 @12:03AM (#16121507)

Yeah, only a handful of people though Obama was a half breed from Kenya. It's still disturbing that those obscure figures (like this lone whacko[0]) said stuff like

> Wake Up America! See article: "Israeli Science: Obama Birth Certificate is a Fake"

and

> He doesn't have a birth certificate, or if he does, there's something on that certificate that is very bad for him. Now, somebody told me -- and I have no idea if this is bad for him or not, but perhaps it would be -- that where it says 'religion,' it might have 'Muslim.' And if you're a Muslim, you don't change your religion, by the way.

and

> Perfect Obama's dad born in Africa, Mitt Romney's dad born in Mexico.Any pure breeds left? #CNNDebate

Surely we can agree that nasty, terrible people like that have no place in our political discourse?

[0] http://bit.ly/1PR0Fzw

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Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map by evgen on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @06:17PM (#16120059)

You are aware of the fact that even in 2016 more than 40% of registered Republicans thought president Obama was born in Kenya, right? It was a bit more than a handful...

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Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @06:31PM (#16120136)

You did notice that scarmig said a bit more than "born in Kenya", right?

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