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


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'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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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