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A new poll shows how many Republicans feel President Obama is trying to take over Texas

A new Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey was released earlier today, which showed the following findings I felt the need to share:

- 32% of Republicans believe "the government is trying to take over Texas" (40% do not)

- 50% of Tea Partiers believe this

- 76% of Rick-Perry-for-president supporters believe this

- 56% of Ted-Cruz-for-president supporters believe this

So, in other words, 44% of Republican respondents believe in the Jade Helm conspiracy theory (56% do not), 68% of Tea Party respondents believe in this conspiracy (32% do not), 82% of Rick Perry-supporter respondents believe in it (18% do not), and 73% of Ted Cruz-supporter respondents believe in this theory (27% do not).

This conspiracy theory is so ridiculous, even Arizona Senator John McCain has spoken out on the matter, saying the following to the Dallas Morning News: "It's bizarre. We have been having military exercises in the southwest for a couple of hundred years."

"Bizarre," yeah, that's the nice way of putting it. What McCain really wanted to say was probably something along the lines of, "My friends, this is me, an old man, telling you all to stop acting so f**king crazy. God bless you and God bless the United States of America." Amen to that...

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/05/13/32-republican-voters-u-s-government-texas.html

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/PPP_Release_National_51315.pdf

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/even-republicans-ridicule-jade-helm-conspiracy-theories

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