Worry not Willy Tex, you're not alone!
It appears this "University of Texas" may actually be a legitimate
educational institution.
From the Houston Chronicle:
Poll finds 23% of Texans think Obama is Muslim
By RICHARD S. DUNHAM
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau
Oct. 29, 2008, 11:27PM
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WASHINGTON — A University of Texas poll to be released today shows
Republican presidential candidate John McCain and GOP Sen. John
Cornyn leading by comfortable margins in Texas, as expected. But the
statewide survey of 550 registered voters has one very surprising
finding: 23 percent of Texans are convinced that Democratic
presidential nominee Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Obama is a Christian who was embroiled in a controversy earlier this
year about his two-decade membership in Chicago's Trinity United
Church of Christ. Yet just 45 percent of those polled identified the
Illinois senator as a Protestant.
The Obama-is-a-Muslim confusion is caused by fallacious Internet
rumors and radio talk-show gossip. McCain went so far at one of his
town hall meetings to grab a microphone from a woman who claimed that
Obama was an Arab.
The Texas numbers are unusual because most national polls show that
just 5 to 10 percent of Americans still believe Obama is a Muslim —
less than half the number of Texans who buy into the debunked theories.
The UT poll shows McCain running ahead of Obama statewide, with a 51
percent to 40 percent margin. Cornyn, a first-term Republican from
San Antonio, leads Rick Noriega, a state representative from Houston,
45 percent to 36 percent. Another 14 percent of voters remain
undecided in the contest.
The poll found that 89 percent of Lone Star State voters say the
country's economic situation is worse than a year ago. And President
Bush and Congress both get record low marks.
Just 34 percent of Texans approve of Bush's job performance — a big
change for a former governor who won re-election 10 years ago with 70
percent of the vote. And Congress is even more unpopular: Just 8
percent of Texas voters approve of the work being done on Capitol Hill.
The telephone poll was conducted by the Texas Politics Project and
Department of Government at The University of Texas at Austin. The
poll was conducted from Oct. 15 to 22, and had a margin of error of
4.2 percentage points.
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