It seems hard to imagine how to take seriously a political party that believes the only way they could have lost an election was by fraud.
The new national poll from Public Policy Polling (D) has an astonishing number about paranoia among the GOP base: Republicans do not think President Obama actually won the 2008 election.The poll asked this question: "Do you think that Barack Obama legitimately won the Presidential election last year, or do you think that ACORN stole it for him?" The overall top-line is legitimately won 62%, ACORN stole it 26%.
Among Republicans, however, only 27% say Obama actually won the race, with 52% -- an outright majority -- saying that ACORN stole it, and 21% are undecided. Among McCain voters, the breakdown is 31%-49%-20%. By comparison, independents weigh in at 72%-18%-10%, and Democrats are 86%-9%-4%.
Trying to look at this in some kind of "half full" way - the polls question (legitimate win or ACORN fraud) is biased towards an extreme response and the high numbers that attribute Obama's win to ACORN shenanigans is probably artificially high.
Just doing some pretty simple math also helps to put this thing into perspective. Only some 20% of folks identify themselves as Republicans. Even 52% (the number of Republicans who believe Barack Obama won as a result of ACORN voter manipulation) amounts to some 10% of the total population.
That's probably about the same number of Americans who believe the sun revolves around the earth and losing baby teeth means a visit from a money laden fairy.
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