New York real estate magnate Donald Trump mulls a run for the Republican presidential nomination, people within his own industry aren't exactly high on his candidacy, according to one online poll.
Obama tried to quash conspiracy theories that have raged since he was a little-known candidate, which are gaining traction again, fanned by figures like billionaire mogul Donald Trump as the 2012 White House race begins.
At least some of this renaissance in support for the so-called birther movement can be attributed to Mr Trump, a property tycoon, who is considering running for the Republican presidential nomination.
Last month he told an interviewer that he had doubts over Mr Obama's account of his birth. He then proceeded to follow this up with a string of statements that were simply not true.
Trump, the property mogul and reality television star mulling a Republican presidential run has in recent weeks raised questions about Obama's birthplace, in an apparent bid to court the party's radical conservative base.
"I've accomplished something that nobody else has been able to accomplish," Trump said in the political bellwether state of New Hampshire, which will host an early 2012 Republican party nominating contest.
The poll will remain open for another week. The site's readers appear to be evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, although with an anti-Washington bent. An earlier poll asking who was to blame for the near-shutdown of government found 29% blamed Democrats, 23% blamed Republicans -- and 44% blamed "the whole damn lot of them.
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