Poll: Majority of Voters Approve of Obama’s Handling of Wright
WASHINGTON — Most voters think Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has done a good job handling the controversy surrounding his longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, according to a poll released Sunday.
In a CBS News/New York Times poll, 60 percent of voters — and 68 percent of Democratic primary voters — said they approved of the way Obama handled the situation.
At a press conference in Washington last Monday, Wright praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and reiterated his beliefs that that the U.S. government may have developed the AIDS virus to infect the black community and that it had invited the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Obama denounced the remarks the next day.
Three-quarters of voters polled said Wright’s statements had not changed their opinion of Obama.
And a majority of those polled — 56 percent — said the news media have spent too much time covering the controversy.
The poll was conducted among a random sample of 671 adults, including 283 Democratic primary voters, from May 1-3. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 4 percentage points for the whole group, plus or minus 5 percentage points for the Democrats.
water left alone will purify itself very one hundred feet. The sippi is Obama country!!
Rev. Wright is not running for President Senators Clinton and Obama are. Let the candidates stick to the issues, too much spin on Rev. Wright who is a great theologian with his own thoughts, consequently not the thoughts of Senator Obama.
Are you kidding a sample of 671 voters .Comon
IF AMERICA BELIVE EVERYTHING WRIGHT IS TRUE BECAUSE HE’S THE PASTOR THEN EVERYTHING HE SAY ABOUT AMERICA IS TRUE ALSO BUT IF YOU SAY HE’S NOT TELLIN THE TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA THEN YOU MUST SAY HE’S NOT TELLIN THE TRUTH ABOUT OBAMA!!
Are they kidding? How could a small poll sample possibly be reflective of the attitudes of millions of Americans? This issues goes to the heart of Obama’s ability to stand up to criticism in a time when this nation cannot tolerate any hesitation. He’ll never get my vote.
I am praying for everyone who believes that OBAMA can change anything!!!! Wake UP!!! We need someone who is experience and has no other ties with other “so called religions. I believe that CLINTON can bring this country back to life.
Hillary 08
just proves to show how short the memory spans of obamabots let alone 20 years for you know big O
What is wrong with the people of the USA today? I guess, they cna’t see the forset for the trees.
I am just wondering the motive of media covering the Wright controvesy for months. This is so unfair considering that the other presidential candidates have not been tailgated on ‘guilty by association like Obama” I do not think that this is fair to Obama since whatever words Wright said are his own responsibility and why should Obama become part of it.
I have grown so tired of the media playing “Reindeer Games” trying to discredit Barack. This man obviously has a mindset for change, and they are using every trick they can to discredit him. Its sad that a “True American”, has to endure such ridicule; when the likes of Hillary and her spotted past are not even mentioned. She is playing the same foolish political games that have caused this country to fall from the powerful state in which we once possessed. WAKE UP AMERICA, and see through the smokescreen!!!!