Drawn And One Quartered

A new CBS/Vanity Fair poll shows that 24% of Americans believe Barack Obama was born outside the US.

Long after the question of President Obama’s birthplace should have been put to rest, a new poll shows that nearly one in four Americans believe the “birther” lunacy that the president was born outside the country. The Vanity Fair/60 Minutes poll found that 24 percent of respondents think Obama was born outside the U.S., with six percent saying he was born in Kenya, another two percent choosing Indonesia, and the remainder being unsure of his exact foreign origins.

There a two problems here:  A whole lot of Americans are convinced (we're talking tens of millions here) that Obama isn't American, and I'm not sure if the core problem is A) how stupid Americans are about things like this or B) the fact that the Village won't actively correct stuff like this.  Only 39% of the people asked got the question right:  Hawaii.

It's less Birtherism and more ignorance...but then again the only difference is that Birthers are willfully ignorant.