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All the smear tactics aimed at Barack Obama appear to be working with key segments of the voters who support Hillary — no matter how false the charges. The Pew Foundation reports today, while noting that Obama is weathering the Rev. Wright storm: White Democrats who hold unfavorable views of Obama are much more likely than those who have favorable opinions of him to say that equal rights for minorities have been pushed too far; they also are more likely to disapprove of interracial dating, and are more concerned about the threat that immigrants may pose to American values. In addition, nearly a quarter of white Democrats (23%) who hold a negative view of Obama believe he is a Muslim.

So when Hillary Clinton said in an interview that Barack Obama was a Christian…”as far as I know,” that signal gave indirect credence to the Barack-as-Muslim smears circulating on the Web and elsewhere during this campaign season. It’s also naive, as some progressives claim, or flatly disingenuous, to insist that such false allegations shouldn’t be seen as smears at all, just because there’s nothing wrong with being a Muslim.

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Art Levine: 25% of Anti-Obama Dems Think He’s a Muslim - Politics on The Huffington Post

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