Barack Obama \u2013 according to a new poll, one in four Americans suspect him to be the anti-Christ About one in four Americans suspect that President Barack Obama might be the antichrist, more than a third believe that global warming is a hoax and more than half suspect that a secretive global elite is trying to set up a New World Order, according to a poll released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The survey, which was conducted by Public Policy Polling, asked a sample of American voters about a number of conspiracy theories, phrasing the questions in eye-catching language that will have the country\u2019s educators banging their heads on their desks.<\/p>\n
The study revealed that 13% of respondents thought Obama was \u201cthe antichrist\u201d, while another 13% were \u201cnot sure\u201d \u2013 and so were at least appeared to be open to the possibility that he might be. Some 73% of people were able to say outright that they did not think Obama was \u201cthe antichrist\u201d.<\/p>\n
The survey also showed that 37% of Americans thought that global warming was a hoax, while 12% were not sure and a slim majority \u2013 51% \u2013 agreed with the overwhelming majority view of the scientific establishment and thought that it was not.<\/p>\n
The survey also revealed that 28% of people believed in a sinister global New World Order conspiracy, aimed at ruling the whole world through authoritarian government. Another 25% were \u201cnot sure\u201d and only a minority of American voters \u2013 46% \u2013 thought such a conspiracy theory was not true.<\/p>\n
At least some of the insane theories suggested by the poll were dismissed by large majorities. For example, only 7% of Americans in the survey believed the moon landing was faked, 14% believed in Bigfoot and 4% accepted that \u201cshape-shifting alien reptilian people control our world by taking on human form\u201d.<\/p>\n
(Bigfoot, also known as sasquatch, is the name given to an ape-like creature that some people believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Bigfoot is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid) The survey was carried out in order to explore how voters\u2019 political beliefs impact on their willingness to embrace conspiracy theories \u2013 it did indeed find that the partisan divide that is blamed for many problems in Washington DC also extends to the world of paranoia, aliens and Sasquatch.<\/p>\n
For example, when it comes to thinking global warming is a hoax some 58% of Republicans agreed and 77% of Democrats disagreed. While 20% of Republicans believed Obama is the antichrist heralding the End Times, only 13% of independents did and just 6% of Democrats.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven crazy conspiracy theories are subject to partisan polarization, especially when there are political overtones involved. But most Americans reject the wackier ideas out there about fake moon landings and shape-shifting lizards,\u201d said PPP president Dean Debnam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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