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A controversy over Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s former pastor has not hurt Obama, a new poll found on Thursday, even as more potential trouble surfaced involving his church.
A poll by the Pew Research Center said videos of sermons by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Obama’s subsequent speech on race in America last week have attracted more public attention than any events thus far in the 2008 presidential campaign.
The March 19-22 survey of 1,503 American adults found that despite the flap, Illinois Sen. Obama had maintained a 49 percent to 39 percent advantage over New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The headline is a bit misleading: Obama has “weathered” the storm IF (a) you poll adults and not likely voters, AND (b) you compare Obama to Clinton, who is about as disliked as anyone and whose husband has said so many boneheaded things that Rev. Wright’s comments only serve to balance out the candidate’s idiocy.
If you think Rev. Wright’s comments will not matter among registered voters, and vis-a-vis John McCain come the general election, you are wrong. The GOP, and the right side of the blogosphere, will be replaying the videos ad nauseam.
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