"Birther" Bill Is a Favorite of Arizona Voters, According to Poll
By Matthew Hendley Fri., May 11 2012 at 11:08 AM
Categories: Birthers (sigh), Poll of the Day
According to this poll, that's your average Arizona voter.
Of some of the more controversial ideas tossed around the Arizona Legislature, the "birther" bill is the most popular to voters, according to a recent poll.
The Morrison Institute for Public Policy quizzed Arizona voters on five of the more controversial bills brought up by the right-hand side of the Legislature, including the citizen militia, religious objections to contraception, bringing guns to public places, stronger abortion regulations, and of course, the "birther" bill.
Just one of those ideas had more support than opposition -- the "birther" bill.
Sixty percent of the voters polled supported the bill "that would require presidential candidates to come to sign an affidavit that they are an American citizen," while 36 percent opposed it.
Just over one-third of the poll respondents said they "strongly support" the idea.
In another indication that Arizona's state representatives and senators may not exactly be representative of their constituents, a couple of the more popular of these controversial pieces of legislation were the ones killed at the Legislature.
The "birther" bill, pushed during the most recent legislative session by state Representative Carl Seel, was killed pretty quickly.
The third-most popular piece of legislation in the poll, the citizen militia -- "creating an armed volunteer citizen militia to patrol the Arizona-Mexico border" -- wasn't even voted on in the House.
Forty percent of those polled wanted to see the citizen militia.
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http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2012/05/birther_bill_is_a_favorite_of.php
Which goes to show how really screwed up AZ seems to be.
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