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CBS/NYTIMES POLL- "Media Coverage of the Rev. Wright Controversy Has Been - TOO MUCH 56%
I would really recommend looking at the latest CBS/NYtimes poll.
Concerning Rev. Wright's coverage in the media the new poll sites that according to registered voters polled the attention paid has been:
Too Much-- 56%
Too Little-- 5%
About Right--34%
Interesting numbers.
I wonder how these results will play out in the GE.
If you enjoyed my post please recommend it.
Concerning Rev. Wright's coverage in the media the new poll sites that according to registered voters polled the attention paid has been:
Too Much-- 56%
Too Little-- 5%
About Right--34%
Interesting numbers.
I wonder how these results will play out in the GE.
If you enjoyed my post please recommend it.
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Just like Lewinsky...most people were sick and tired of Lewinsky, but the media covered it to death. Most people didn't think Clinto should be impeached over Lewinsky, yet the GOP pressed on.
May 4, 2008 7:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, the GOP did abuse their congressional power by impeaching Bill Clinton over something that had nothing to do with Ken Starr's investigation. it was all about the unhinged Tom Delay and his clear derangement on all things Clinton. lying about having an extra-marital affair and trying to cover it up is NOT what the Founding Fathers had in mind when it comes to 'high crimes and misdemeanors' for impeaching a president. not at all. he should've been censured, if that, and that's it. now what the REPUBLICAN Richard Nixon did, that rises to what the FF meant.
May 5, 2008 12:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think it's high crimes and misdemeanors if you're a Puritan. Do we still have any of them around? heheheh
May 5, 2008 1:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Of course that's the result. It's not surprising at all, honestly. The problem is, the MSM doesn't care. Because the more they cover it, and the more they make non-issues like that into talking points, the longer they can drag the primary out. Because people will continue to talk and think about it, even if they're bitching and moaning.
May 5, 2008 1:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
Check out the new USA Today/Gallup Poll. It says quite the opposite.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-05-04-obama_N.htm?csp=15
May 5, 2008 3:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Does this mean that 44% don't think we've had enough Wright coverage or at least say that we haven't had too much? The cable networks pop champagne if they can get one percent or two percent of the audience. I guess they'll keep beating it to death.
I'm a Clinton supporter and I've been sick of it for a while. It's really not fair to Obama. The Wright stuff is only a big deal to hard core repubs that won't vote for us anyway. His disparaging remarks about working class and small town voters will hurt us more in the general election.
May 5, 2008 4:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's not really about Jeremiah Wright. If John Edwards were still in the race, and the HE was the front runner right now, the media would loop video of him getting his hair fixed.
When the status quo is threatened by a renegade candidate, whoever they are, they will use ANYTHING to derail said candidate. Anything.
May 5, 2008 10:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's the Dean Scream and the Gore Sigh and Kerry Wind-surfing - MSM branding the leading Democrat with a negative image by endless endless endless repetition. When everyone is sick of it, they get more exposure by debating whether it's been shown too much, which carries them over until the next time Wright says something or the next time Clinton mentions Wright, at which point a new cycle begins. What we're seeing is a further test of whether the media, and Republicans who control it, can undermine the process by which Democrats choose their nominee, and the process by which the country chooses its President.
May 5, 2008 12:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Of course, we all say that, and then we watch with baited-breath to hear the same stuff over and over again. We all hate rubber-neckers too, except when we're passing this or that spectacle with our feet firmly planted on the brakes!
May 5, 2008 12:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Poll: Flap over pastor hurts Obama
OBAMA VS. WRIGHT
Obama: Hurt by flap over pastor
By Susan Page, USA TODAY
Barack Obama's national standing has been significantly damaged by the controversy over his former pastor, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, raising questions for some voters about the Illinois senator's values, credibility and electability.
The erosion of support among Democrats and independents raises the stakes in Tuesday's Indiana and North Carolina primaries, which represent a chance for Obama to reassert his claim to a Democratic nomination that seems nearly in his grasp. A defeat in Indiana and a close finish in North Carolina, where he's favored, could fuel unease about his ability to win in November. Such results also could help propel Hillary Rodham Clinton's uphill campaign all the way to the Democratic convention in August.
In the USA TODAY survey, taken Thursday through Saturday, Clinton leads Obama among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents by 7 percentage points, the first time in three months she has been ahead. Two weeks ago, before the controversy over comments by Jeremiah Wright reignited, Obama led by 10 points.
May 5, 2008 2:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Won't work Otto, no matter how hard you try.
Obama is smearproof.
Especially when standing next to a dirty-glassed, liar like Clinton.
May 5, 2008 5:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
USA Today. Now there's a unbiased source.
May 5, 2008 6:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Especially when standing next to a dirty-glassed, liar like Clinton."
Obama couldn't possibly be a liar, because we haven't sufficient history of him on the public record.
Absence of evidence is absence of evidence -- not a proof of whatever one wants to claim in its absence.
May 5, 2008 5:47 PM | Reply | Permalink