I wonder what a birther Obama supporter is like.
Probably someone who isn't aware that the President needs to be "naturally" born. A lot of people being polled are probably not even aware there is a controversy.
Indeed. We talked about this about two years ago when birtherism was just emerging. There is presumably a large fraction of the population that doesn't understand the "natural born citizen" rule, and is only vaguely aware that there's some kind of controversy over Obama's birthplace. Or they're thrown by the question, and think it's a trick question and give a strange answer. Or they correctly believe he was born in Hawaii, but don't realize that it's part of the USA:
http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2009/08/deeper-look-at-birthers.htmlThose people may believe he was born outside the USA, but don't realize that that would have any impact on his eligibility for president, or make his presidency "illegal". Some of those people are going to be Obama supporters. At least one of the polls even showed that there were some "birthers" who are black and Obama supporters. They're birthers in the sense that they think he was born overseas, but not in the sense that they think there's something wrong with that, or that there's a big conspiracy over it.
