Polls Show Obama Moving Past Wright Controversy
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, PollsFor all of you who thought yesterday’s WSJ poll was wrong, here are two more polls to support the trend.
First, Pew Research:
The videos of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s controversial sermons and Barack Obama’s subsequent speech on race and politics have attracted more public attention than any events thus far in the 2008 presidential campaign. A majority of the public (51%) said they heard “a lot” about the videos, and an even larger percentage (54%) said they heard a lot about Obama’s speech, according to the weekly News Interest Index.Most voters aware of the sermons say they were personally offended by Wright’s comments, and a sizable minority (35%) says that their opinion of Obama has grown less favorable because of Wright’s statements.
However, the Wright controversy does not appear to have undermined support for Obama’s candidacy. The latest nationwide survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted March 19-22 among 1,503 adults, finds that Obama maintains a 49% to 39% advantage over Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, which is virtually unchanged from than the 49% to 40% lead he held among Democrats in late February. Obama and Clinton continue to enjoy slight advantages over John McCain in general election matchups among all registered voters.
Then, the rolling Gallup poll today shows Obama starting to pull away.
The reason this could be significant is there has been no movement from this poll in the past four days.
More as it develops…
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March 28th, 2008 at 6:06 am
Jacks…
I don’t even know why I read your post and then commented, but once I got started I just couldn’t help myself.
Carpe Diem - Seize the day
Carpe messis -Seize the harvest
Carpe morio - Seize the idiot
100,000 registered Rep’s changed to Dem to vote for clinton in OH (there is a voter fraud investigation currently underway because of this)
118,000 registered Rep’s changed to Dem to vote for Clinton in TX (giving her the vote victory but not the delegate victory fortunately)
Clinton is behind in every matrix of counting for the Dem nomination except party insiders - and they don’t count.
You’re premise is accurate there is vote fraud and Republican manipulation but it makes Hillary look stronger than she really is - not Obama - Hillary has lost already, but there isn’t any reason for her to drop out because she has HOPE for a miracle.
Clinton received over $150k in contributions from the Insurance lobby - they love her and she won’t make a move against business - believe that - Bill is making too much money otherwise.
March 28th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Obama can move past anything. Because his devotees don’t want him to be associated with uncomfortable racial-identity politics, they simply wish it away, and the controversy disappears into the ether. Obama’s followers project there hopes and dreams onto him, in return he gives them good feelings about themselves when he gives eloquent speeches.
Simply ignore the fact that Wright is Obama’s mentor and spiritual guidepost for 20 years, because if you paid any attention, it would reveal that either Obama has a militant view of Christianity as “black liberation theology,” or that Obama is just ignorant about spiritual matters and goes through the motions because thats what he is told to do, or it is politically expedient for him at the time. It doesn’t matter who Obama actually is in reality, because you can simply make him into whoever you want him to be.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Terence C., was it also fraud and manipulation when democrats crossed over and voted for McCain just to upset the Republican nomination?
That topic never crosses democrats’ mind and lips.
Further, how is it fraud if people can legally register any way they want to during the primaries?
I am sure in November everyone will go back to vote for the person of their choice.
In the words of the wise, choosing between Hillary and Obama equates to ‘A fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi.’