1% of Americans think Barack Obama is Jewish
- 9 years ago
As Friday's news cycle has made abundantly clear, there are still a handful of Americans out there who think Barack Obama is a secret Muslim.
Donald Trump is under fire after a man at his town hall in New Hampshire Thursday night said, "We have a problem in this country, it's called Muslims.
We know our current president is one," and Trump, perhaps not all too surprisingly, failed to correct him.
And according to a recent CNN poll, one in three Americans think Obama is Muslim.
One in a hundred think he's Jewish.
While nearly 40% guessed correctly that Obama is a Christian or Protestant, 4% responded Catholic, 2% Mormon and 1% Jewish when asked, "Do you happen to know what religion Barack Obama is?"
In May, Obama addressed a Washington, D.C., congregation and mentioned how The Atlantic columnist Jeffrey Goldberg called him the "first Jewish president."
"Since some people still seem to be wondering about my faith, I should make clear this is an honorary title, but I was flattered," he said.
Donald Trump is under fire after a man at his town hall in New Hampshire Thursday night said, "We have a problem in this country, it's called Muslims.
We know our current president is one," and Trump, perhaps not all too surprisingly, failed to correct him.
And according to a recent CNN poll, one in three Americans think Obama is Muslim.
One in a hundred think he's Jewish.
While nearly 40% guessed correctly that Obama is a Christian or Protestant, 4% responded Catholic, 2% Mormon and 1% Jewish when asked, "Do you happen to know what religion Barack Obama is?"
In May, Obama addressed a Washington, D.C., congregation and mentioned how The Atlantic columnist Jeffrey Goldberg called him the "first Jewish president."
"Since some people still seem to be wondering about my faith, I should make clear this is an honorary title, but I was flattered," he said.