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Liberal blog Daily Kos and polling firm Research 2000 asked more than 2,000 self-identified Republicans about some of their more controversial beliefs, and the results are up now.
Here are some of the highlights:
- Only 24 percent of Republicans say that ACORN definitely did not “steal the 2008 election.” Twenty-one percent say the community group did; 55 percent are unsure.
- Thirty-one percent of Republicans say President Obama is “a racist who hates white people.” Thirty-six percent disagree; the rest aren’t sure.
- Twenty-three percent of Republicans want their states to secede from the union. In the South, it’s 33 percent.
- Only eight percent of Republicans say that “openly gay men and women [should] be allowed to teach in public schools.”
In every case, the more anti-Obama, conservative results come from Republicans in the South.
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