Problem with that (& the “mess with pollsters” theory) is that there were some questions that got lower positive responses than that, especially among certain groups (e.g. 0% of “somewhat liberal” people believed in Lizard People (versus 10% of very liberal people), 0% of moderates believed that the government spreads chemicals in plane exhausts, 0% of African Americans believed that Paul McCarteny died and was replaced by the Beatles - or in Lizard people). If there were 5% of people deliberately giving bogus answers for reasons you suggest, then it would be true across the various categories.
As long as the number is within the margin or error, I can ignore it.
He’s just been coasting recently.
At the risk of painting myself as crazy liberal conspiracy theorist, AFAIK the CIA really was involved in cocaine coming to the US.
“*nstrumental in creating the crack cocaine epidemic,” as the poll put it, is certainly overstating it. But even the CIA admits that we gave a lot of money and other support to people bringing cocaine into the US. We did it because they were Contras or were closely-connected enough to the Contras that we thought it would help them.
The CIA says that the facilitation of the cocaine trafficking was an unintentional byproduct, and that the major sin was not ending the support after we learned about how the money was used. I’m willing to believe that. But I think reasonable people could also believe that the CIA’s investigation into itself is not especially trustworthy, and would not have put it past them to see the cocaine revenue for the Contras as benefiting their goals.
I must admit that if I was asked whether “lizard people are controling our society”, I would probably answer “yes”.
or an active member of the Muslim Brotherhood, or a communist focused on destroying America, etc, etc.
Cornopean, I think you’re repeating something you heard (conservatives think people who disagree with them are wrong, liberals… blah… blah bad people) which isn’t actually accurate.
Again, that “margin of error” should be randomly distributed.
If you look at the actual question, it was not whether they were “**nstrumental in creating the crack cocaine epidemic”*. It was (Q11) “Do you believe the CIA was instrumental in distributing crack cocaine into America’s inner cities in the 1980s, or not?”
Your theory about some possible indirect involvement upstream doesn’t cover that.
Hell, if I thought anybody was the antichrist, I’d vote for him too. You know he’d get things done.
Yeah, I would as well. 
And if I was asked if Bush were the anti-Christ I’d definitely have said ‘yes’…even though I don’t believe in the concept of an anti-Christ. I think those numbers are skewed upward by people who don’t really believe that Obama is the ‘anti-Christ’ in a religious way, but who don’t like him for some reason and just think that he’s a bad guy.
Yeah, but that was only the good kind of cocaine that white people use.
Good luck getting him out of office when his term is up.
I agree, and it’s funny you use that example because at the forum in NH earlier in the week I was screaming at the radio over that very example. “I’m going to give everyone a unicorn which farts laughing gas” is a goal, but utterly meaningless without saying how you will do it.
I really, really wish that interviewers and moderators would demand the details of all political candidates. Sadly, I think there are just too many people who hear “I’ll make America great again” and think it’s policy.
Also, think about how much fun the follow up would be: Tell me, exactly how is America not great today." “Exactly what decade was the great one?” “Ah, so you’re in accordance with IS policies, but don’t agree with the specific century?”
Well that’s what Armageddon’s for. It’s ancient Greek for “impeachment”, did you know that ?
I don’t think you’re evil for believing such an easily disproved canard, I just think you’re wrong.
If your cite is a self-selected group of people on an obscure message board, you have maybe the worst cite in the history of citing things.
If we’re playing with anecdotes, listen to a Christian radio station sometime.
Tough questions like “has God spoken to you about your candidacy.”
Wooo.
Also note that, to support a claim that one group is worse than another group, he links to just one of the groups in question.
I might give a provisional “no” if the poll didn’t include the option that mole people were controlling our society.
Mole-lizards, surely.
Jewish mole-lizards, to be exact.