Yes, why not?
Because intelligent people know that having the same family name as someone from the past doesn't mean you are the same person as that other figure.
This is why we can have a crook like Richard Nixon be elected the Presidency and resign in utter disgrace, and yet, Jay Nixon (same last name, to note) was easily elected as Democratic Governor of Missouri in 2009.
And the name Hussein means so much as "Joe" in Arabic. BFD.
Nixon was a crook? Really??!!!
Nixon never took a bribe from a convicted felon like Obama did from Rezko
Nixon TALKED about the IRS, Obama used it against his "Enemies"
Nixon never had the NSA spy on people
Yepp, he was, and at the end of the day, he so much as admitted it. Oh, and the fact that the Congress was definitely going to impeach him:
Watergate scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Congress actually impeached Clinton, who was also disbarred. Yet Dems dismiss that as politics.