Belief in conspiracies largely depends on political identity(i.e. conspiracy theories GOPers believe

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1. Not surprising. Here's an older poll of various conspiracy ideas...

and there's very little difference between Democrats and Republicans on the non-political ones, such as belief in Bigfoot.
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_National_ConspiracyTheories_040213.pdf

If Al Gore strongly argued against the existence of Bigfoot for whatever reason, I'd expect more Republicans to suddenly believe the opposite! Good grief, I can't count how many times I saw the comment sections of articles about climate change filled with deniers who brought up Al Gore! As if he was responsible for the science!