Question: Why are there so many stupid people in Findlay Ohio?
From MSNBC.COM:
In Flag City USA, where false Obama rumors fly
Ohio town represents the challenges faced by Democrat’s campaign
FINDLAY, Ohio - On his corner of College Street, Jim Peterman stares at the four American flags planted in his front lawn and rubs his forehead. Peterman, 74, is a retired worker at Cooper Tire, a father of two, an Air Force veteran and a self-described patriot. He took one trip to Washington in 1989 — best vacation of his life — and bought a statue of the Washington Monument that he still displays in a glass case in his living room.
He believes a smart vote is an American’s greatest responsibility. Which is why his confusion about Barack Obama continues to eat at him.
On the television in his living room, Peterman has watched enough news and campaign advertisements to hear the truth: Sen. Barack Obama, born in Hawaii, is a Christian family man with a track record of public service. But on the Internet, in his grocery store, at his neighbor’s house, at his son’s auto shop, Peterman has also absorbed another version of the Democratic candidate’s background, one that is entirely false: Barack Obama, born in Africa, is a possibly gay Muslim racist who refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Leah — On 6-30-2008 at 8:44 am
The article quotes only 5 people (from a town of 40,000) about their opinions about Obama. So it’s hardly fair for you to make the jump from 5 people to “So Many” in the title of your post.
Gerald Zepeda — On 7-1-2008 at 10:32 am
Those same people also live not far from my liberal bastion of Berkeley California… just up the road in any number of suburban and rural communities and over the hill in the towns of the central valley and down near the megalopolis of Los Angeles. if only Findlay, Ohio, had a corner on stubborn ingnorance…
Porter Venn — On 7-2-2008 at 5:11 pm
Well, I agree there is ignorance everywhere, although it does seem to be more highly concentrated the closer you get to Appalachia and the Rural South.