Interesting Fox poll (don't shoot me): 57% o people don't believe Obama shares Wright's views

[anigbrowl]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,339949,00.html

Excuse me for linking to Fox, but I feel there's a good reason to do so since they don't carry any water for the Democrats. When one of their polls finds a firm majority of people aren't judging Obama by his pastor.

"Fifty-seven percent of Americans do not believe Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama shares the controversial views of his former spiritual mentor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, while about one in four (24 percent) believes he does share Wright’s views. And a sizable minority has doubts about Obama because of his pastor’s comments, according to a new FOX News poll.

Republicans (36 percent) are more likely than independents (20 percent) and Democrats (17 percent) to think Obama shares Wright’s controversial and unpatriotic views. Whites (25 percent) are more likely than blacks (15 percent) to think so.

Over a third of voters (35 percent) and a quarter of Democrats (26 percent) and independents (27 percent) say Obama’s relationship with Rev. Wright has caused them to have doubts about him. Here the racial breakdown is stark: 40 percent of whites and 2 percent of blacks have doubts."

[Greyskye]

1. For convenience

[EFerrari]

2. 100% have no clue who the Reverend really is because they watch Fox. n/t

[MADem]

3. I don't think he does, and I support Clinton. I think he joined that church because

it helped him in his work, and he may have liked it....and later, it was worth eight THOUSAND votes.

And don't yell at me because I think that. I don't think there's anything untoward about going where the votes are.

I do think Obama was dumb not to say farewell to his Wright Church/Wrong Pew and his pal the Pastor Disaster, fondly, maybe right after he got his Senate seat, and perhaps pick a church "closer to home" or with a specific program for the kids (any excuse like that will do). Had he done that he wouldn't be struggling in the polls.