1st Major Poll since Speech: Majority Doesn't Believe Obama Shares Wright's Views

I can't believe I'm quoting a FOX Poll but if they show this I believe others will follow suit!


Poll: Majority Doesn't Believe Obama Shares Wright's Views
By Eric Kleefeld - March 20, 2008, 5:57PM
A new poll from Fox News, the first major poll taken since Barack Obama's big speech on race relations, shows that the effect of the Jeremiah Wright flap might not be so bad after all.

By a 57%-24% margin, registered votes do not believe that Obama shares Wright's controversial views. The internals show only 17% of Democrats saying Obama shares Wright's ideas, along with 20% of independents and 36% of Republicans.

Fox also asked respondents whether they had doubts about Obama because of his association with Wright. The results: 35% Yes, 54% No, with the numbers standing at 26%-66% for Democrats, 27%-61% among independents, and 56%-33% with Republicans.



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no fucking way! FOX viewers appear to be fair and balanced in some cases.

So don't get too blown away yet.

:)

but still, this has to be a blow to FOX.

I think he hit it home when he said that most church going people have had a clergy member say something they didn't like or agree with.

More evidence that it will hurt any candidate who tries to smear Obama with this.

This piece seems to have not landed solidly.

Obama will be associated with terrorists that set of bombs when he was 10 years old

Ayers was radical way back when bell bottom jeans were popular. If you can't remember bell bottom jeans, trust me, it was a long time ago!

Ayers now has a respectable job at the University of Illinois. He is a progressive. Like some of us claim to be here....

And Ayers is a member of an organization that does a lot of good for people...and Obama also has some association with that organization. By the way, when I researched it, I decided to put it on my donor list for the next year. It does a lot of good stuff. But hardly radical as in the weather underground!

So Obama has a second hand association with Ayers...not a direct one. So your guilt by association thingie is just that. But it is also an association with someone with a past but nowadays is quite respectably progressive.

You are using the tactics of Senator McCarthy from Wisconsin. I really pity you. In that you have sunk to such low standards just to support your candidate. Cult-like.

I'm trying to say that if they do associate Ayers with Obama it will be absurd. I think my post went a little over your head. Of course Obama was nothing to do with Ayers. Obama was 10 years old when they were active.

Relax Earthlover. He wasn't attacking anyone, just making a point....

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nice - gives one faith and yes HOPE in America again.

and even most Republicans do NOT believe the incendiary PAP being posted on DU.

hmmmm, interesting

This poll is uplifting.

I might add that the Hillary supporters I know in real life are a lot less incendiary than some of what I see here. Lots of Hillary supporters are kool! So it is no big surpise to me the poll results.

Here are the full results ---> http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/032008_release_web.pdf

There is some really fascinating information in this poll.

Question #21 is quite telling:
Regardless of how you would vote, which Democratic candidate do you think has a better chance of beating John McCain in the general election in November - Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama?
..................Hillary.......Barack.......Both.........Neither.......Don't Know/Refused
Aggregate:....33%..........43%..........7%............7%...............10%
Democrats:....40%..........44%.........10%............--................5%
Republicans:..27%..........44%..........3%............15%..............10%
Independents:.26%..........43%..........9%.............7%..............15%

Notice the Independents...

Keep hope alive.

yet she still won. It worries me that people will, on one hand, admit they don't think
a candidate is "X" and yet they still buy into the negative campaigning and vote against
them ... ???

Republican Cross-over voting in Ohio:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x499374#499375


On Provisional Ballots in Ohio:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x499074

I should have been as skeptical of the Ohio results as I was in Texas. (I still can't
forgive them for taking so long to "stripe" the state, instead of just giving it to
her.)

primary but voters have until 30 days before the election to change their status. There are other states going forward however, that are open primary and opening to manipulation by Republicans who only interested in disrupting the outcome for their own benefit.

The film "American Blackout" dealt with this topic (against Cynthia McKinney) and Hardball just ran this story (finally) if you are interested:

Hardball: GOP for HRC

GOP voters creating mischief within the Democratic Party. David Shuster covers republican cross-over voting to influence the Democratic nominee since McCain secured the nomination. He cites Limbaugh's campaign to GOTV and "if they can stomach it, vote for a Clinton". In Mississippi, Republicans favored Hillary 3 to 1.

VIDEO HERE:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23697447#23697447

:hi: Wasn't that speech amazing?

It puts the lie to all the negativity regarding Obama's connection to his pastor.

Thank you Modmom, all the naysayers out there thought this would destroy him.
But then again those insisting were never on his side anyway, it was wishful thinking.

GO OBAMA

in the head.

Yay, all the cross overs are doing wonders for them.

:hi:

Quote:
Polling was conducted by telephone March 18-19, 2008, in the evenings. The total sample is 900 registered voters nationwide with a margin of error of +/- 3%.
Democrats n=388, +/-5 percentage points; Republicans n=274, +/-6 percentage points.

(Not stated, but implied by the above, 238 Independent voters)

Nuh uh, no way. :)

I typed out one of the poll question/results (see post #29), but that's way too time consuming. :)

Here are some of the results I thought were most interesting. Pay close attention to the Independent voters:

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No matter how you look at it over 1/3rd of republicans polled think Obama shares Wrights views, thats not necessarily a good sign. This country still has a long way to go.

Not just Republicans.

On the brighter side, 2/3 of Republicans did NOT agree...

times then..500 was clearly not enough to sink into the Average American.

...leaving Colmes to clean up the mess, as usual.

Poor Hill, she just can't catch a break. :nopity:

This proves that in spite of those who wished Americans believed differently...it just isn't so.

Thanks for posting this, mod mom. :thumbsup:

K&R

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