Well, Lighter, if you were a copy editor and I owned the newspaper, I'd fire you for using a headline like "1/2 of voters think O. may be Muslim." It's misleading, maybe even dishonest.

If the data is correct, then it would be correct to say that 17 percent of voters think Obama is Muslim. That's a defendable headline.

I think I like the 31 percent who don't know Obama's religion. Why should it make a difference? I'm proud of them, that they haven't bothered to inquire.


I gotta say that it pisses me off when people say Obama is a Muslim, especially because it forces me into a difficult position. I don't think his religion or his race or his sexual orientation should make a difference, so why should it make a difference to me if people give false information about those things?

-Joe-