How Much Will Obama’s “Elitist” Comment Hurt Him?

[politicallore]

http://www.politicallore.com/presidential-candidates/how-much-will-obamas-elitist-comment-hurt-him/223

"When they asked the respondents if they agreed with the statement they got this response. From the independents, 37% said yes, as did 13% of the Republicans and 34% of the Democrats while 49% of independents said no along with74% of the Republicans and 43% of the Democrats."

[roguevalley]

1. go here for how this is hurting clinton not just in Penn but in the country

itself: www.americablog.com

http://www.americablog.com/2008/04/white-women-begin-to-turn-away-from.html

This is the first concrete sign, I've seen, of a voter backlash against Hillary. Well, perhaps not a backlash as much as a realization that it's over for Hillary, she lost the race two months ago. Not only do voters want to back a winner, they really don't want to back someone who has already lost - at some point, no matter how ardent a supporter, when you realize that your candidate doesn't have a chance, you hang it up and go home. This is the first sign that Hillary's strongest supporters, white women, are going home. From McClatchy:

Clinton's strongest core of support — white women — is beginning to erode in Pennsylvania, the site of the critical April 22 Democratic presidential primary, and a loss here could effectively end her White House run. A Quinnipiac University survey taken April 3-6 in Pennsylvania found that Clinton's support fell 6 percentage points in a week among white women. Nationally, a Lifetime Networks poll of women found that 26 percent said they liked Clinton less now than in January, while only 15 percent said they liked her more.

This part of the story is particularly interesting:

A lot of white women, and for that matter white men, want the race to end and increasingly consider Obama an acceptable nominee.
"There may be a general, reluctant acceptance that things just don't look that good for Clinton," said Susan Carroll, a professor of political science and women's and gender studies at Rutgers University. The most familiar echo among many Pennsylvania women when they discuss Clinton, however, is disappointment. Ask them when they became disillusioned with the woman who would be president, and they can cite almost the exact moment. For Clare Howard, a meditation teacher from Southhampton, it was the night in January when Bill Clinton suggested that Obama did well in the South Carolina primary because of his race. That went too far, said Howard, 60. "It was like they would do anything to win," she said.
Joan Schmidt, 60, a school psychologist in Levittown, grew tired of hearing Clinton tout — and exaggerate — her experience.

[Oleladylib]

2. it's not a comment..it's a philosophy..

[anonymous171]

7. Like lying about being under sniperfire and expecting no one to catch you on it?

110m girl thinks that the peasants will believe whatever BS they are fed.

[Petrushka]

3. "'When they asked....'"? Who is the "they" that asked? And why should one take for granted

that what "they" say is correct, factual, true?

Just askin' . . . because it's the same website you linked last night . . . and I'm not goin' THERE again . . . not after my vote was rejected in your online poll at that same website last night.

Have a nice day!

[Egnever]

4. none and it will shore up support withing the dem party

[itcfish]

5. It Won't Hurt Him

at all. The media forgives any snafus Obama makes but make a big enormous deal of the ones Hillary makes. Obama has been crowned. Relax.

[DearAbby]

6. Gee in 2006

we depended on the discontent of the American people, to vote a majority of Democrats into the house and senate...but now we are supposed to be content with the shit of the last 7 yrs?

According to the Clinton campaign...the American people are not bitter or angry,, hell why vote for Democrats, we according to the Clinton campaign, we are content and happy with the GOP and what they have done these last few years...just resolved to trudge onward with determination, our fecking sleeves rolled up.

Wait a minute...that sounds like STAYING THE COURSE!

[nebula]

8. They haven't hurt him at all

according to the latest PA polling.

Notice that Hill's trendline has shot straight down in recent days, while Obama's are still rising upward. Keep in mind, the graph reflects an average of dozens of major polls, as of 04/13/08.


In other words, it appears Hillary has only succeeded in swiftboating herself. LOL.