58% Say Obama Denounced Wright for Political Convenience, not Outrage, 56% say he shares his views

[GoldieAZ49]

There is no way he can win a national election. He is unelectable. The SD's will not be 'stealing' anything from Obama, they are going to vote for the least damaged candidate, they have to.

A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 30% of the nation’s Likely Voters believe Barack Obama denounced his former Pastor, Jeremiah Wright, because he was outraged. Most—58%--say he denounced the Pastor for political convenience. The survey was conducted on Wednesday and Thursday night. Obama made his statements about Wright on Tuesday.

Wright held a mini-media tour last weekend capped by a press conference at the National Press Club on Monday. Only 33% of voters believe that Obama was surprised by the views Wright expressed at Monday’s press conference. Fifty-two percent (52%) say he was not surprised.

Fifty-six percent (56%) say it’s at least somewhat likely that Obama “shares some of Pastor Wright’s controversial views about the United States.” That figure includes 26% who say it’s Very Likely Obama holds such views. At the other end of the spectrum 24% say it’s Not Very Likely that Obama shares such views. Just 11% say it’s Not at All Likely.

Just 7% of the nation’s voters agree with Wright’s views of the United States. African-American voters, by a 64% to 12% margin, disagree with Wright. Eighty-one percent (81%) of all voters are following the story somewhat or very closely.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/58_say_obama_denounced_wright_for_political_convenience_not_outrage

[jakem]

1. 76% of push polls are 110% useless.

[ericgtr]

2. I am surprised it's not higher with the MSM beating into the publics head

after a while 24/7 coverage sinks in, this should be considered a victory for the media. While all other white pastors are free to attack gays, jews, etc. with a free pass. McCain must share Hagee's views too but never mind that.

typo

[Triana]

5. DISCOUNT the black votes, COUNT the black pastor

....COUNT the white votes, DISCOUNT the white pastor(s)

Racist, much?

[jefferson_dem]

3. Old poll. Loaded question. Non-mutually exclusive value categories.

Otherwise...thanks for posting. :eyes:

[MADem]

7. Friday, May 02, 2008

Today is the 5th.

What defines OLD, here, now? Hours?

[jefferson_dem]

14. Data collected April 30-May 1.

By current political standards, those data are old. Sorry.

[MADem]

16. Well, let's not post any, then, if that's your standard!

:rofl:

[MADem]

4. Eighty-one percent (81%) of all voters are following the story somewhat or very closely.

Interesting. So much for the "non-story" declarations.

[cjsmom44]

6. RE: WHY THEN

ACCORDING TO TIME/CNN ...CNN HAS DECIDED TO MAKE CNN A REV. WRIGHT FREE ZONE

BECAUSE THEIR VIEWERS OVERWHELMING THOUGHT IT WAS A NON ISSUE

THEY SAID ENOUGH ALREADY....

SO I DARE TO SAY YOUR POLLS MUST BE FAULTY...

[leftofcool]

12. Oh, and we believe CNN.......sure we do

[MADem]

15. Well, if they did say that, they're lying. Wright is still on CNN, in context.

http://topics.cnn.com/topics/jeremiah_wright?iref=mptopics

Examples:

updated 1 day ago
Analysis: The Wright effect on presidential race
Politics is a business of numbers, and the numbers favor Sen. Barack Obama. But they are changing in ways that give Sen. Hillary Clinton some hope and have dramatically changed how Republicans look at the presidential election.

updated Fri May 2, 2008
Pastor returns to haunt Obama
Is there is a crazy old girlfriend, a weird uncle or a troublesome ex-husband in your past? I thought so. Most of us have someone that we'd rather not see again.

updated Thur May 1, 2008
CNN poll: Obama losing support
A new national poll suggests the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is a tie.

Worst for last--

updated 5 minutes ago
Glenn Beck: Obama's odd timing on Wright
Sen. Barack Obama is moving away from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright so fast he may claim to be an atheist by next weekend. The ongoing sprint from such a polarizing figure is far from a surprise, it's just the timing of it that is so odd.


PSSST--ALL CAPS MEANS YOU ARE SHOUTING AT PEOPLE.

[cjsmom44]

21. re: opps

sorry the cap key was on...

did not mean to shout

blush...

my apology....

[MADem]

23. No prob!

:hi:

[Upton]

8. Not a good idea to post old polls

with a today's 24 hour news cycle, things change too fast.

[GoldieAZ49]

20. Did Obama improve in the polls over the weekend? If so, please post it

you just don't want to read what these polls indicate

[BigDDem]

9. Wright = "legitimate political issue"

"I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community"

[NJmaverick]

10. And more Hill supporters trying to Knee cap Obama- that is sick in my opinion

What happened to the DEMOCRATIC Underground. The Hill supporters have thrown the party under the bus, to help their candidate try and steal the nomination.

[mmonk]

11. I won't yield to racism.

That's no way to get ahead. In fact, it makes voting for Clinton extremely difficult for me since she used the Wright issue so much and tried to link Obama to Farrakhan and Hamas to dishonestly parrot Obama as a threat beyond her bid for the presidency.

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[bowens43]

17. So?

[John Q. Citizen]

18. So why do the supers keep moving overwhelmingly to Obama?

[GoldieAZ49]

24. So they won't be called racist

it is that simple, they need the AA votes locally

[bpeale]

19. i agree with this poll

he sat in that pew for 20 years, got married there, had his kids baptisms take place there. what more do you need to know. he agrees with the guy. the only kind of person who just takes up space, pew sitters if you will, are those who are either dead or don't have a life. why would someone just sit there & listen to that bullshit for 20 years before denouncing it? it is politically expedient for him to throw Wright under the bus, otherwise he wouldn't be doing it. he can see the handwriting on the wall about Wright.

[scheming daemons]

22. 58% say Clinton is untrustworthy..... that's far worse and FAR MORE UNELECTABLE.

[wileedog]

25. Clinton has the highest negatives in GE history

You have a pastor

Good luck with that

[sudopod]

26. Smokin poll

ur doin it.

[cliffordu]

27. When in doubt, the familiarity of the old attacks must be comforting.

I'm glad you have at least these meager comforts on this last night of hubris and false pride.

After tomorrow it's going to get much more difficult to justify this kind of tactic, won't it??

That's cool. I hope you've had fun.


:hi:

[kwenu]

28. SDs will not destroy the party. Hillary supporters would destroy the party.

Obama can definitely win the presidential race. I've stopped talking about "electability" because no one knows what the hell it means. It's just crap that Hillbots spew because their candidate doesn't have the lead and can't get the lead.