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Posted by: bobo-in-texas 1 year, 9 months agoHas Barack Obama been hurt by his association, now revealed to most American voters, with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright? The numbers from Rasmussen Reports supply some answersââ;¬"mostly in the direction of yes.
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Wolfie2007
March 27, 2008, 12:30 p.m.Very good, BoBo, I just posted a comment regarding Obama's poll numbers against McCain on the story you posted yesterday.
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stephen-johnson
March 27, 2008, 2:01 p.m.Like aniokly noted in the prior post, Rasmussen's poll is at odds with the WSJ/NBC poll.
Pennsylvania will provide a good test of who is right, although Hillary didn't help herself with the Kosovo "misspeaking." But most of the articles that I've seen about working class white voters in PA document dissatisfaction both with Obama's relationship with Wright and Obama's speech.
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saintetienne
March 27, 2008, 2:36 p.m.The cracks in the Democratic temple have become fissures.
Bill Clinton is telling Obama to "saddle up for battle" even as Hillary's numbers fall.... People are lobbing Monica questions at Chelsea... Obama's race speech did more harm than good, and he can't shake the "reverend" from his past.... Eliot Spitzer is soon to be indicted, even as his replacement admits to extra-marital affairs with colleagues.... Tony Villaraigosa is dodging reporters about his affair... McGreevey and his wife snipe at each other in court... Voters in Florida and Michigan are disenfranchised.... Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid continue their brigade of uselessness... And for once, bigmouth Howard Dean - agape at all the goings-on and clueless as to what to do - is mercifully silent....
Soon, this collapsing ruin of a political party - being undone from the inside out - will come falling down in a heap. After their landslide loss this November, it's FINISHED.
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Dicax_Maximus
March 27, 2008, 3:11 p.m.I'm simply grateful that I don't need to vote in this apology for a "race for the leadership".....
They (the 3 front runners from BOTH) parties, all appear to be as bad as each other....
My only preference is NOT Hillary, for the final "nail in her coffin" was lying over her grandstanding.....
For the other two, may your God help your country.....
This does not bode well........
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SonOfTheMask
March 27, 2008, 4:50 p.m.Okay...which is it? The pastor disaster did or did not hurt Obama's poll numbers. I see this story that said it did...I see another story that says the opposite.
Which is it?
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mauigirl17
March 27, 2008, 7:05 p.m.I'm surprised the negatives aren't higher. What's with Pelosi backing Obama anyway? I thought it's all about the children with her. why isn't anybody upset about the children of TUCC being subjected to Rev. Wright at the pulpit holding his hands by his privates, gyrating (while pretending to receive ******) while saying "Clinton done us like he did Monica".
Where's the Child Protection Services?
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icono1
March 27, 2008, 9:14 p.m.As a "average white person" that has been shot at by a 'real sniper' during my GI service to 'God and Country', I find this whole attempt at serious political theater, the Clinton, OBama psycho-drama, absolutely asinine and absurd. If it wasn't for the dangerous political reality of the position these people are 'running for' it would be nothing more than a dark comedy of self aggrandizing mistakes at best.
And I hear that insane McCain is ranting at the Russian's evil empire again. Dr. Strangelove redux?
Are these three self centered children the best this country can produce now?
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tanglang
March 27, 2008, 9:29 p.m.Well this certainly is some good news. I wonder where all the defenders of racism and hatred for our nation are? (By that I mean B.O.'s supporters.)
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Mdiar
March 27, 2008, 11:17 p.m.The key to actually determining if this hurt or did not hurt Obama in his race against Clinton is to conduct a poll of all states that have not yet voted in the Democratic primaries and compare that with any such polls that may have existed just prior to the attacks, if any pollster had the foresight to make such a poll. If they exist, that will tell it more accurately then any national poll. For all we know the few percentage points Obama lost due to this are all concentrated in states that didn't vote yet and Clinton's dip is concentrated in states that have already voted. If that unlikely event occurs Obama could be in serious trouble. That concentration could put Obama significantly behind Clinton. Frankly I don't find that scenario very likely, or vice versa, but it would be interesting to know what polls of the states that have yet to vote before and after this incident say.
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automan909
March 28, 2008, 1:35 a.m.Separation of church and state is just a ficticous thing kept alive by left wing commies like you. It's not anywhere in our Constitution and never has been. In god we trust is on our money, not in Marx we trust. Our whole country is based on God and the teachings of the Bible so get over it.
As for Obama...put a fork in him, he's done.
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NoWayMan
March 28, 2008, 2:30 a.m.FTA:
Before the Wright revelations, Rasmussen in its nightly tracking showed Obama ahead of Clinton nationally 48 percent to 41 percent, a statistically significant 7 percentage point lead. On March 18, the day of Obama's Philadelphia speech, that was reduced to a 45 percent to 44 percent lead. The most recent results, reported March 24, showed Clinton ahead 46 percent to 44 percent. In other words, over two weeks, Obama was down 4 percentage points, Clinton up 5 percentage pointsâ;;major movement, given the usually glacially show movement in Rasmussen numbers.
but wait...
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oldauntjoy
March 28, 2008, 3:49 a.m.I'm an old white woman who grew up in the segregated South, where rumors were spread that the NAACP and Martin Luther King were pawns of the Communist Party. Witnessing how blacks were treated, I can empathize with the anger of that Rev. Wright's generation.
I attended a prominent Southern Baptist Church --more liberal back then -whose pastor preached against the Masonic Lodge and angered my father, and doubtless the fathers of several of my friends who were his lodge brothers. But our families stayed in the church, because MOST of our pastor's sermons were less controversial and overall, we loved our church for many reasons.
My husband, a veteran of 20 years in the military, including Nam, is a lifelong Republican and an amateur historian. Both of us support Barack Obama.
Either you understand the man and his message or you don't.
But forget the polls and the smear tactics. America is waking up from a long nightmare. Obama will be our next President. Get used to the idea.
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mythhycca1
March 28, 2008, 3:51 a.m.If this doesn't wreck Obama's run, I don't know what will.
We know his wife hates America and we know his Rev. hates America and we know he's been taking his kids to the church that promotes hate and has been attending this church for 20 years. And yet people still say they're views aren't his?
He said he never knew his rev. hated or his wife hated? How blind, deaf is this man? Anyone that uses the black oppression card to vindicate him is out there!
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jmopinion
March 28, 2008, 6:57 a.m.Interesting that Oprah has escaped this Rev. Wright scandal in that she has been one of Obamas biggest supporters and a member of this church also.
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normallysilent
March 28, 2008, 8:11 a.m.If ya needed a poll to figure that out, ya must be one of his supporters.
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normallysilent
March 28, 2008, 8:14 a.m.Poor, Poor soles. Don't worry, things will change. Here, have some Cool-Aid
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Georgia50
March 28, 2008, 9:33 a.m.Yes, there's a poll that says the Wright connection did not harm Obama. That raises a few questions.
1. Where is Rev. Wright and why is he canceling speech engagements?
2. Why did TUCC clean up its web site?
3. Why did the Obama campaign web site delete links to TUCC?
4. If Uncle Racist is family, why doesn't he appear with Obama?
5. For that matter, why is Rev. Wright no longer on the Obama campaign?
6. If Rev. Wright was justified in saying what he said about white people and the US, why is Fox News e-ville for reporting what he said, word for word?
At least when Hillary took an arguably disgraceful "stand by her man" approach over the Monica thingy, by God she stood by her man. Obama tosses out a speech as if throwing fish to baby seals, then shoves Wright into a closet.
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