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Ten percent of American voters believe Sen. Barack Obama is Muslim, despite the presidential candidate's frequent descriptions of his Christian faith and a high-profile flap over his former pastor.
The finding was contained in survey results released by the non-partisan Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. While a majority — 53% — identify Obama as a Christian, 16% of conservative Republicans, 16% of white evangelical Protestants and 19% of rural Americans believe the Illinois senator is Muslim. About a third of Americans said they don't know what Obama's religious beliefs are, and 9% of that group said it's because they've heard different information about his faith. Confusion over the candidate's religion crosses party lines. Fourteen percent of all Republicans, 10% of Democrats and 8% of independents think he's Muslim, according to the survey. Nearly 80% of Americans said they had heard something about controversial sermon sound bites from Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, that have been circulating in the media.
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The survey follows an earlier poll in which 80% of the general public said they'd heard rumors that Obama is Muslim.
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