Obama drops seven points against McCain since the Wright scandal came out.
In the week before the media frenzy over Wright, Obama and McCain were essentially tied in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll. Less than a week later, and two days after Obama’s speech, McCain had opened a seven-point lead over Obama. Significantly, by Thursday’s polling, McCain had pulled slightly ahead of Obama among unaffiliated voters. McCain also enjoys unified support from Republican voters while Obama only attracts 65% of Democratic votes at this time.Obama’s favorable ratings have also fallen below the 50% mark since the world learned of his former Pastor. This can be seen as part of a larger trend that began shortly after Obama’s victories in the Wisconsin Primaries. At that time, just before Hillary Clinton began raising questions about her competitor, Obama was viewed favorably by 56% of voters nationwide. That had slipped to 52% just before Pastor Wright’s views became big news and to 47% just before Obama’s speech. Two days after the speech, Obama’s favorables remain at 48%.
..falls 16 points behind Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania. Hillary has doubled her lead in a week.
Clinton of New York leads Obama of Illinois by 16 percentage points -- 51 percent to 35 percent -- according to the Franklin & Marshall Poll conducted for the Tribune-Review, WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh and other news outlets. Nearly one in seven likely Democratic voters -- 13 percent -- are undecided.
Hillary gets her first statistically significant lead on Obama since the beginning of the year.
The March 14-18 national survey of 1,209 Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters gave Clinton, a New York senator, a 49 percent to 42 percent edge over Obama, an Illinois senator. The poll has an error margin of 3 percentage points.
Obama's supporters in the media have pushed back hard, calling his speech courageous (was it really courageous to throw grandma under the bus?), but the video, played hundreds perhaps thousands of times across the country in mainstream media outlets, is a naked fact of such undeniably clarity, that there is really nothing to spin. Wright is an albatross around Obama's neck.
UPDATE: More albatross necklaces for Barry? Illinois State Senator James Meeks, Obama super delegate.
"We don't have slave masters, we got mayors," Meeks said then while preaching. "But they are still the same white people who are presiding over systems where black people are not able to be educated. You got some preachers that are house n------. You got some elected officials that are house n------. Rather than them try and break this up, they're gonna fight you to protect that white man."
UPDATE II: Pundita (new blogger for me--thanks Dan Riehl...) enumerates the casualties in the Obama massacre speech.
Obama threw so much and so many under the bus it looked like a massacre by the time the speech ended. He threw Martin Luther King, Jeremiah Wright, his church congregation, the civil rights movement, black liberation theology and his grandmother under the bus -- and not to mention truth.
Read it all...
Posted by Mick Stockinger on March 20, 2008 11:52 AM
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