Obama's lead over Clinton narrows: Reuters poll

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Obama's lead over Clinton narrows: Reuters poll
Wed Mar 19, 2008 7:07am EDT

By Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama's big national
lead over Hillary Clinton has all but evaporated in the U.S.
presidential race, and both Democrats trail Republican John
McCain, according a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.

The poll showed Obama had only a statistically insignificant lead
of 47 percent to 44 percent over Clinton, down sharply from a
14 point edge he held over her in February when he was riding the
tide of 10 straight victories.

Illinois Sen. Obama, who would be America's first black president,
has been buffeted by attacks in recent weeks from New York Sen.
Clinton over his fitness to serve as commander-in-chief and by a
tempest over racially charged sermons given by his Chicago preacher.

The poll showed Arizona Sen. McCain, who has clinched the
Republican presidential nomination, is benefiting from the lengthy
campaign battle between Obama and Clinton, who are now battling
to win Pennsylvania on April 22.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1824791220080319

[DemVet]

1. And people say this Wright fiasco didn't have any punch. n/t

[VeraAgnes]

10. I think the Mississippi vote coupled with this

Rev. Wright connection has been frightening the status quo. The speech was a good idea.

[casus belli]

2. "1004 likely voters were surveyed."

Whatever.

[billbuckhead]

3. I bet his big race speech hurts him with actual voters

Just watch. All this racial jujitsu to cover up going to a bigot's church?

[quantass]

7. Sadly, i agree to an extent -- but we have several weeks to

to mend the damage and get them back. This is politics and things change fast.
Time will tell but Obama has the funny ability to make things work.

I doubt he will win PA (many voters there openly admit to not voting for him because he is black) but having many weeks before its primary and a few more weeks till NC is a blessing in disguise.

Who knows, but i think Obama has a knack of threading the needle and getting people to love him.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Why Does Zo(m)by Sit On His Polls

The poll was finished on Friday which is when the story broke...It's worthless to measure its impact...

[Teaser]

13. He waits to see what other polls are saying

and doesn't release them if they disagree too much.

[casus belli]

9. You didn't see the speech I gather.

Ignored.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. It's A Zo(m)by Poll...I'll Take It With A Grain Of Salt

But yeah it's a push...Polls show either ahead by a small margin...

[Clovis Sangrail]

5. thank you Hillary /nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Hillary Flogged The Wright Story?

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[Clovis Sangrail]

11. the Wright story is exclusively responsible for those numbers?

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[ima_sinnic]

12. whatever. the Wright "fiasco" has convinced me most Americans are racist

a-holes anyway. The "problem" is not Wright's "rhetoric," it is Obama's "uppitiness," the threat to the supremacy of the white anglo-saxon descendants of the original genocidal war-mongers who first stole this land from indigenous people and then built the economy on the backs of black slaves and Asian and Hispanic indentured servants and serfs. Everybody knows that blacks are not going to rise up and start killing whitey, but they can't stand the thought that blacks might actually achieve equality, even to the point of being assertive about it. They can't take the idea that a black person could actually ascend to the role of supreme "boss" of the country.

I took a brief look in the Hillary Supporters Group. It's like a fucking Klan convention over there. Everybody is soooo outraged that Obama "threw his grandmother under the bus" (read: threw whitey "under the bus"). There is much indignation and gnashing of teeth that Obama actually identifies as a black man when he could "choose" to identify with whitey.

Back in 1984, when Ferraro was the VP nominee, everybody said we're "not ready" for a woman in power, and I've heard my whole life (all 62 years) that "we're not ready" for black people to be much of anybody. After reading the racist bullshit that's been coming down and seeing the overriding focus on the candidate's race (which I'd been under the delusion the country could avoid), and the THREAT that that is to supposed "Democrats," I am just fucking disgusted. I say, if Clinton ends up as the nominee because the whole fucking country is still so unevolved, ignorant, and stupid that it can think only in petty terms of race and how fucking threatened they are by an assertive prideful black person in a position of power, well, we'll probably end up with a President McCain because the ignoramuses are also threatened by a woman in a position of power and will come out of the woodwork to vote AGAINST THIS particular woman, and Democrats don't like her that much either because she's just more of the same old war-mongering corporate kiss-ass crap. Might as well have a real repuke as a fake one. Let the country go totally to hell--it's what it deserves.