8% of voters in New Jersey think Obama is the anti-Christ

I don't normally comment on American polls, there's too many and plenty of people out there doing it well already. This one was just so off-the-wall I couldn't pass it by though. It's a poll by Public Policy Polling of likely voters in New Jersey.

President Obama's popularity over in New Jersey has fallen into negative territory, the interesting bit is some of the more, erm, unusual questions. 21% of respondents said they did not believe the President was born in the USA, which is sadly not unusual to New Jersey - a nationwide YouGov poll in the US found 26% of respondents saying Obama was probably foreign born.

It gets more bonkers though, it went on to ask "Do you think Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ?". 8% of respondents said yes. 13% said don't know (which in it's own way is even more worrying, one can just dismiss the 8% as being insane, rabidly partisan or buggering about... but people who aren't sure if the President might actually be the anti-Christ?)

It defies further comment really.

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