WHITE PEOPLE: NOT READY FOR DEMOCRACY?

A new Newsweek poll shows Barack Obama's lead over John McCain down to 3 points (although other polls show Obama with a noticeably bigger lead). Cultivated dumbassery appears to be the reason for the tightness of the race:

The new poll suggests white voters continue to be a challenge for Obama, with McCain leading the Democrat in that category 48 to 36 percent. Some of Obama's lag in white support may be explained by continual confusion over his religious identity. Twelve percent of voters surveyed said that Obama was sworn in as a United States senator on a Qur'an, while 26 percent believe the Democratic candidate was raised as a Muslim and 39 percent believe he attended an Islamic school as a child growing up in Indonesia. None of these things is true.... 85 percent of undecided voters are non-Hispanic whites and only 22 percent of those undecideds have a four-year college degree.

This year's Karl Rove is a spammer (or group of spammers) spreading this nonsense to people who are sure they aren't gullible precisely because they believe ridiculous rumors and think they're really getting the inside skinny.