Thread: SURVEY SHOWS REPUBLICANS MORE LIKELY TO BELIEVE CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Survey shows Republicans more likely to believe that aliens crashed in Roswell, shape-shifting reptilian people run the world and autism caused by vaccines

Left-leaning Public Policy Polling conducted the survey of Americans that also found 13% of respondents believe Obama is the Antichrist and 51% believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

By Dan Friedman / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 12:23 AM


SUSAN STERNER/AP

'Sanity gap' in party affiliation shows 27% of Mitt Romney voters believe in the UFO coverup, versus 16% of voters who backed President Obama in 2012, according to survey by Public Policy Polling.

WASHINGTON — Bigfoot lives!
Well, according to 14% of Americans, he does.
From the Kennedy assassination to the coverup of supposed UFOs in Roswell, N.M., conspiracy theories are prevalent — and often partisan — among U.S. voters, a new poll shows.
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Some Americans, 5% of them, think Paul McCartney died and was secretly replaced by the Beatles in 1966.


According to the new Public Policy Polling survey, released Tuesday:
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- Roughly 21% of Americans believe aliens crashed at Roswell. But a “sanity gap” emerges when you take into account party affiliation: 27% of Mitt Romney voters believe in the UFO coverup, versus 16% of voters who backed President Obama in 2012.
- 13% of respondents believe Obama is the Antichrist.
Susan Walsh/AP

Republicans are far more likely to believe the President is the Antichrist.

- 28% of Americans think Saddam Hussein was in on the 9/11 attacks.
- In one of the most highly partisan results, close to 60% of GOP voters believe global warming is a hoax compared to 23% of Democrats.
- Republicans, at 34%, are also far more likely than Democrats, 15%, to believe “a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring” to rule the world.
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NASA

The survey showed 7% of the voters think the moon landing was faked.

The results speak for itself, said Dean Debnam, the polling company’s president.
“Even crazy conspiracy theories are subject to partisan polarization, especially when there are political overtones involved,” he said.
But the survey by left-leaning PPP will likely annoy its many Republican critics with the suggestion GOP voters are more inclined to believe conspiracy theories on issues that do not seem particularly political.
For instance, the poll found 22% of Republicans versus 19% of Dems think vaccinations cause autism, and that 5% of GOP voters versus 2% of Dems think “shape-shifting reptilian people” run the world.
ROBERT H. JACKSON/AP

A majority of Americans, 51%, believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

That’s right: 4% of Americans believe in lizard people.
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The survey says 4% of Democrats and 6% of Republicans think Osama Bin Laden is still alive.
And 51% of us believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in killing John F. Kennedy.
JOSE MENDEZ/EPA

In an overwhelming partisan divide, close to 60% of GOP voters believe global warming is a hoax compared to 23% of Democrats. Al Gore, former vice president of the United States, has been a staunch proponent of mitigating global warming.

Democrats, of course, have their bugaboos, too: 17% of Dems believe the CIA deliberately spread crack cocaine in inner cities while only 10% of Republicans think so.
Some conspiracy theories aren’t partisan. The survey found 28% of both parties think aliens exist and 8% of each think fluoride in water has “sinister” purposes beyond dental health.
And while 5% of Americans apparently think Paul McCartney died and was secretly replaced by the Beatles in 1966, the parties don’t differ much on the matter.
The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 points.
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April 02, 2013

Conspiracy Theory Poll Results

On our national poll this week we took the opportunity to poll 20 widespread and/or infamous conspiracy theories. Many of these theories are well known to the public, others perhaps to just the darker corners of the internet. Here’s what we found:
- 37% of voters believe global warming is a hoax, 51% do not. Republicans say global warming is a hoax by a 58-25 margin, Democrats disagree 11-77, and Independents are more split at 41-51. 61% of Romney voters believe global warming is a hoax
- 6% of voters believe Osama bin Laden is still alive
- 21% of voters say a UFO crashed in Roswell, NM in 1947 and the US government covered it up. More Romney voters (27%) than Obama voters (16%) believe in a UFO coverup
- 28% of voters believe secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government, or New World Order. A plurality of Romney voters (38%) believe in the New World Order compared to 35% who don’t
- 28% of voters believe Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks. 36% of Romney voters believe Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11, 41% do not
- 20% of voters believe there is a link between childhood vaccines and autism, 51% do not
- 7% of voters think the moon landing was faked
- 13% of voters think Barack Obama is the anti-Christ, including 22% of Romney voters
- Voters are split 44%-45% on whether Bush intentionally misled about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. 72% of Democrats think Bush lied about WMDs, Independents agree 48-45, just 13% of Republicans think so
- 29% of voters believe aliens exist
- 14% of voters say the CIA was instrumental in creating the crack cocaine epidemic in America’s inner cities in the 1980’s
- 9% of voters think the government adds fluoride to our water supply for sinister reasons (not just dental health)
- 4% of voters say they believe “lizard people” control our societies by gaining political power
- 51% of voters say a larger conspiracy was at work in the JFK assassination, just 25% say Oswald acted alone
- 14% of voters believe in Bigfoot
- 15% of voters say the government or the media adds mind-controlling technology to TV broadcast signals (the so-called Tinfoil Hat crowd)
- 5% believe exhaust seen in the sky behind airplanes is actually chemicals sprayed by the government for sinister reasons
- 15% of voters think the medical industry and the pharmaceutical industry “invent” new diseases to make money
- Just 5% of voters believe that Paul McCartney actually died in 1966
- 11% of voters believe the US government allowed 9/11 to happen, 78% do not agree
Full results here
　
　
　
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2013/04/conspiracy-theory-poll-results-.html

Stupid Republicans,old white folks Christian racist gun owners.

Wow! can't wait until they poll the Democrats.. I smell a bit of propaganda here and I am an Independent.

Originally Posted by Newmexican

Wow! can't wait until they poll the Democrats.. I smell a bit of propaganda here and I am an Independent.

If you read carefully the poll was of Republicans, Democrats and Independents. EXAMPLE:

- 37% of voters believe global warming is a hoax, 51% do not. Republicans say global warming is a hoax by a 58-25 margin, Democrats disagree 11-77, and Independents are more split at 41-51. 61% of Romney voters believe global warming is a hoax

See all of the questions and polling data @ http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/p...ies_040213.pdf