From the article:
To be sure, this flies in the face of most polls taken after Obama's widely
praised March 18 speech on race and the Wright controversy. In a March 30 Gallup
survey, he had widened his lead over Clinton among Democratic voters to 10
points. A week earlier, he was also up 10 points in a Pew Research poll. ...
Still, there are stirrings of unease among white voters, including those
who fear the issue will hurt Obama in a general election. Pew also found that 39
percent of all white voters who had heard of the controversy, including
Republicans and independents, said it made them less favorable toward Obama.
John Friend, an uncommitted Democrat and Evansville city councilman, said
Republicans may use Obama's ties to the pastor much in the same way they
attacked Democratic candidate John Kerry's patriotism
in 2004.
"It's going to be like the Swift Boat thing,'' Friend said.
Last month, excerpts of sermons in which Wright is heard saying ``God damn
America'' and ``U.S. of KKKA'' were broadcast on television and distributed over
the Internet. In response, Obama delivered what his aides billed as a major
address on race on March 18 in which he condemned the remarks.
That didn't repair the damage for some white voters, said Trent Van
Haaften, an Indiana state representative from Mount Vernon who is backing
Obama.
Full story:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aL5dbtGVMHtU&refer=home
Read David Sirora's Credo (Action) Commentary about Rev. Wright and the controversey here.
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