Quinnipiac Pollster: Obama hasn't been hurt by remarks. "Offended" voters are Repukes already.

[jefferson_dem]

Other pollsters’ numbers disagree with ARG’s. Clay Richards, who runs the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute’s Pennsylvania poll, said he doesn’t expect his poll that will be published Tuesday to show much difference from the last one, which had a Clinton lead of six points. “I don’t see that much movement in Pennsylvania myself,” Mr. Richards said by phone from Harrisburg on Monday. He declined to comment specifically on his rival’s contradictory numbers.

Discrepancies among white voters account for much of the difference. Quinnipiac’s last poll showed Sen. Clinton leading among non-college-educated white voters, 62% to 31%; that was similar to her margin among all white voters (64% to 29%) in the ARG poll, which didn’t ask about education (Mr. Bennett told me he intends to add the question for future polls in the state). By contrast, Sen. Obama leads among college-educated white voters in Pennsylvania, 54% to 42%, according to Quinnipiac. In the last ARG poll, Sen. Clinton’s lead among white voters had been 52% to 36%.

Both pollsters agreed that Sen. Obama hasn’t been hurt much by his remarks about small-town Pennsylvania voters last week. Mr. Bennett said few respondents mentioned them. Mr. Richards said, “My hunch is won’t make much of a difference because most voters who might feel insulted by his comments were already Clinton voters or republicans who weren’t going to vote for him, anyway.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/is-clintons-pennsylvania-lead-really-20-points-319/

[enough]

1. As a Pennsylvanian who grew up in a rural area that is now suburban,

this seems right to me. Most of the people who might be offended by Obama's remarks were NEVER going to vote for him OR her in the general election. For her campaign to suggest otherwise is dishonest.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. MO stands for

Modus Operandi - and deceit is the hallmark aspect of both the candidate and her campaign.

[DJ13]

2. "Offended" voters are Repukes already.

Ah, but thats Hillary's base........

[City Lights]

4. And they stared in her lame ad. nt

[Kber]

14. Problem for Hillary is that I believe PA is a closed primary

[goldcanyonaz]

20. Actually, that would be a problem for Obama, not Clinton.

[johnnydrama]

3. hmmmm

Offended voters are Repukes
Hillary Clinton is "offended"

Therefore:

Wasn't this on the SAT's?

[knixphan]

5. just as I suspected.

[meow mix]

6. K&R

just as we suspected

[Upton]

8. Same thing with Rev. Wright

most of those who feigned outrage never had any intention on voting for Obama anyway.

[jefferson_dem]

9. Yup.

:thumbsup:

[me b zola]

23. The media is still trying to use that smear as an issue

And the more that they try, the more ridiculous they reveal themselves to be.

[kevinmc]

10. Yep ... figures only Rightards would get upset over it. n/t

[Kahuna]

18. He was talking about them. Duh.

:thumbsup:

[Tarheel_Dem]

11. k&r.......nt

:kick:

[Tribetime]

12. thats what I was thinking....

People on the fence are smart enough to see thru this and if Clinton pushes too hard it'll blow back in her face. Then you got idiots like scarborough trying to make this an issue.....aint gonna work. NOT THIS TIME.

[Scurrilous]

13. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Kurovski]

15. K&R. (nt)

[adoraz]

16. thank God.

[Hippo_Tron]

17. I called this yesterday....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5484048&mesg_id=5486319

[DerekJ]

19. kick

[MadBadger]

21. I dont understand how the ARG pollster said his remarks havent hurt him.

How does he explain his poll's 20 point shift in a week then?

[myrna minx]

22. k&r n/t

[ashtoncusher]

24. Democrats are too smart to be fooled

This flap will hurt no-one. First of all, Obama's lead is too big to overcome. Second, Democrats agree with Obama's words. Third, Mccain will screw up many times due to his age-induced loss of memory.

[SoCalDem]

25. exactly.. the people he "lost" were never gonna vote for him anyway

The people in the "Alabama T" of PA will vote for her royal highness in April and Mccain in November..

Some of them made a little scratch off HRH in the form of ads & maybe some donuts.. (if they thought ahead to ask for cash up front)..