Letters to the Editor
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Golly there are a lot of Republicans
"26 percent of Democrats, 56 percent of Republicans and 27 percent of Republicans."
I understand the confusion, Alex, but that 2nd group of Republicans is usually just referred to as "The Clinton Campaign."
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here is a pic of Bill Clinton with Jeremiah Wright
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/20/19265/9246/968/481100
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No, it will not
Essentially, those who are still bothered by Rev. Wright, especially after Obama's speech, are racists who, in the privacy of a poll booth, would never have voted for Obama anyway.
Flame away nitwits.
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Details?
This poll doesn't seem to indicate anything at all, especially when we don't know the political affiliations of the respondents. For example, if all the Democrats that responded negatively were pro-Clinton to begin with, all the Republicans that responded negatively were pro-McCain to begin with and all the Independent (I'm assuming you meant Independents) respondents were initially heavily leaning towards either of those candidates, the results of this survey don't really mean diddly-squat. I'm not saying this is the case, but without this extra information, you really can't conclude anything, can you?
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Winston.
Your thoughtcrime will not be countenanced. Please report to the Ministry of Love. Mark Penn will see to you from there.
To everyone else, breaking news! Sen. Clinton has won glorious victories in Michigan and Florida! And Chocorations are going up 10%! Doubleplusgood.
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A better question...
...is whether the Wright controversy will have legs, especially 6 months from now.
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FOX???
Fox is not a poll or network to be believed. FOX are trying to hurt Obama and they have been presnting lies about him.
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I believe ...
... the breaking news of the breach on Obama's passport just put this Wright nonsense on the backburner sooner than we thought it would.
I don't think this is excellent news for Hillary.
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Yeah really, WTF is up with citing a lame-ass Fox-News poll
Polls that are more trustworthy:
-- Zogby
-- Rasmussen
-- Pew Research
-- polls associated with mainstream news outlets that don't have a history of bias, esp. among their viewership
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Okay, the poll looks somewhat credible, but....
....read the poll!
The stuff about Rev. Wright is only at the very end.
The poll itself shows voters of all stripes preferring Obama to Clinton.
Read it for yourself.
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Saw a completely opposite take on this poll
somewhere else. Look at the bottom stuff-- only 24% of people think Obama shares Wright's views.
This poll was conducted before the Tuesday speech.
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Duh?
Of course Wright's comment and Obama's association with him has hurt his chances. Have you seen the video that was put together by a McCain aide?
It has all the usual black suspects: Malcolm X, the black Olympians who gave a black power salute in Mexico (1968), Michelle Obama, Wright. I'm surprised the Panthers and Marcus Garvey haven't shown up, or a panoramic sweep of blazing urban cities in the 1960s.
The question is, Does this permanently damage him? That remains to be seen, but don't be surprise if it does.
This is Obama's first real political test, and also tests America.
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Rev Wright attending Lyndon Johnson
http://truthabouttrinity.blogspot.com/
I hope this can ease white Americans fear that Obama isnt the reincarnation of 2 in 1 Huey Newton and Arafat
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What percentage of the 24 percent
also think we will find WMD hidden in Iraq and that dinosaur fossils and space travel are fake? A higher percentage of people think Bush is doing a good job right now. I don't think the poll tells us a whole lot, except that a couple fewer people than I expected are complete imebeciles.
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Such a Geek
Am I the only person that read the headline and thought the creator of SimCity had said something bad about Obama? Yes? I thought so.
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Not nearly as much...........
as a video of what Wright says behind closed doors might. Seriously, I think the Obama camp orchestrated the whole thing. The subliminal message of his speech was if you don't vote for me you must want America to be racially divided. News flash.....the only reason he didn't throw Wright under the bus is because the black community would have turned on him. Eight out of ten articles credited this move to his great character in spite of the truth being pretty obvious.
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I know it's been commented on, but all those republicans are making me dizzy
The obvious mistake points out how eager Alex Koppelman was to get this post out. Why? It's full of holes anyway. I thought Salon was supposed to be the best? Where's the reasoned, well considered pov? The worst thing is, as bethb10 said, he's quoting a poll that came out before the speech. That's just inexcusable. Koppelman needs a sit down with Mr. Greenwald. Having a headline like that based on an old poll quoted as "new" should be a firing offense. Shoddy workmanship.
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will it hurt?
Hey, giving birth hurts. We're trying to give birth to something totally new here. There will be hurts, but no surrenders to sad defeatism.
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What does this prove?
This poll was conducted at a time when every 24-hour news network has been playing the Rev. Wright clips over and over and over for the last three days. This will not be the case a week from now, a month from now, or six months from now. Fox News will still trot it out and flog the dead horse, but let's face it, most Fox News viewers probably are not going to be voting Democratic anyway.
I actually think that this story could not have broken at a better time. The Pennsylvania primary is still four weeks away, and Obama holds a narrow but indisputable lead in the popular vote and delegate count. It's extremely unlikely that Hillary will catch him on either, and this is not the scandal that Hillary has been hoping for, in order to convince the superdelegates to overturn the will of the people.
And by the time November rolls around, the right wing might have tried to establish a pattern of anti-Americanism about Obama, but he won't play into their hands. You don't see him rushing out to stick flag pins on his lapels, or quitting his church, or insisting that his friends start calling him "Barry" again. They'll try to sling some mud, he'll rise above it. He won't legitimize their attacks by coming down to their level. But he won't ignore them either. He'll elevate the tone and start talking about Really Big Things, which makes his opponents look small and petty by comparison.
When it comes time to vote, people who aren't inclined to vote for the black guy anyway are going to use Rev. Wright as their excuse. People who are going to vote for Obama anyway will still be ecstatic to do so. And a bunch of other people in the middle will take a look at their financial, housing, employment, and health care situation and vote for the person who's convinced them that they're going to take care of them better.
The Rev. Wright hooplah could have pegged Obama as "the black candidate" and doomed his chances. But Obama's response might establish him as "the friendly black candidate," which might have some tremendous upsides. A black dude who doesn't scare Middle America. Imagine that.