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.
the disturbing fact of Wrights comment is the thousands of children that hear it and believe it.no wonder so many have trouble succeeding in school and beyond.voters will make their feelings known when they vote.
I would not vote for Obama anyway, and I sure would not vote for him due to that un-GODly pastor.
If he cant handle the Wright issue any better than what he did, I don’t want him to ever be my president.
The biggest thing that bothers me is wouldn’t you think that a person wanting the most powerful job in the world should have been smart enough to realize a long time ago that this guy would be a problem for him.
I assume anyone wanting to be President of the U S has been planning it for a long time.
If this is an example of his planning ability — need I say more ?
The Clintons Pastor was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison why is this not talked about? It seems to me that this situation is not being treated fairly. This has not been anywhere. But if you google it everything comes to light. I just think things need to be fair instead of trying to destroy one person and give the other person a clean bill of health. Convicted and sentenced to three years. Lets talk about this.
I feel Mr. Obama should have come out sooner rather than later with his strong denouncement of the Rev. Wright, now it appears only political.
I think that the voters are looking at the little factors everybody has to offer. The tighter the race the more we will kno about this Handling of wright. It also includes the tax breakups and the foreign gas prices.
I would bet that most of most of those voters are black. They would overlook anything to get him in office. If that is not the case then the rest are simply STUPID.
Look who took the poll. Two Liberal, media firms telling you what they want you to believe. God protect us from the media and the sheeple who believe them.
How many people approve of the way the press has handled the Wright situation? This affair reminds me of the McCarthy era when fear ruled & a person could not vindicate themselves from the vicious, loosely grounded, attacks. The press has been practicing a dangerous tactic with their relentless assault on Obama in this case, and I think they should be accountable.
How many years was this man his minister, he thought enough of him to let him marry him, and now that he is running for president he suddenly decides that his comments are extreme. I think it is very hypocritical and just an outright lie. What else has Wright said that is not on tape.