In NJ, You Might be the Anti-Christ if…Your Name’s Obama

A new poll by Public Policy Polling shows some fascinating attitudes among New Jersey residents, particularly conservatives. The most stunning result is that 35% of NJ conservatives think President Obama might be the Anti-Christ (yes, he hyphenates, and with a maiden name like Anti, wouldn’t you?), with 18% being sure that he is.

What the poll doesn’t tell you is that being the Anti-Christ in New Jersey doesn’t even qualify you to play on our hockey team.

The poll also finds a whopping 68% of conservatives entertaining the idea that Barack Obama is not a natural-born US citizen. I wish there was a way to find out how extensive the overlap is, as I would love to interview the people who think he’s the Anti-Christ, but have no problem with his citizenship.

While Jimmy Carter’s remarks about the “intensely demonstrated animosity” toward the President have been morphed and dismissed by the White House, results like these certainly do indicate that there’s something different going on here. If it’s not racism, perhaps it is “Rapture-ism” or some such. In any case, the belief that the President is literally an illegal immigrant from Hell seems to have little grounding in policy or ideological differences.

This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.

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