14% Think Obama Born Outside US

ABC/Washington Post poll puts a number to the birthers

By John Johnson

Posted May 7, 2010 2:13 PM CDT

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Sizing up the 'birthers' - Behind the Numbers — President Obama addresses the Business Council in Washington, Tuesday, May 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Hmmm, maybe President Obama ought to stop cracking jokes about his birth certificate. In a new ABC/Washington Post poll, 14% say he was born outside the United States. Which means that a year and a half into his presidency, a sizable chunk of people think he's not legally entitled to the job, notes the Post's Behind the Numbers blog. About half the respondents knew he was born in Hawaii specifically.

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