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Jeremiah Wright has Negative Effect on Obama, Poll
Says
According
to
the most recent News
York Times/CBS News poll, support among white Americans for the
presidential candidacy of Senator Barrack Obama “has
softened” since the massive media reporting regarding his
former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The biggest decline in support took
place among white males and upper income whites. Obama’s
overall favorability rating dropped 7 points to 62 percent.
However, the poll taken between March 28th and April 2nd, did contain
some good news for Obama regarding his close fight with Senator Hillary
Rodham Clinton for the Democratic Party’s presidential
nomination.
It showed that 74 percent of Democrats felt Obama was the kind of
candidate who would unite the nation. Only, 60 percent felt the same
way about Mrs. Clinton.
The decline in Obama’s overall popularity appears to have
grown out of repeated stories regarding his former Chicago pastor Rev.
Jeremiah Wright.
Wright came in for heated criticism for suggesting that
America’s Middle East policy was in part responsible for the
9-11 terrorist attack on the nation and that the government may have
played a role in spreading AIDS in the Black community.
Taylor
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