Just 8% Have Favorable Opinion of Pastor Jeremiah Wright

[goldcanyonaz]

national political dialogue in recent days, is viewed favorably by 8% of voters nationwide. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 58% have an unfavorable view of the Pastor whose controversial comments have created new challenges for Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign.

Wright was Obama’s Pastor until he retired last month, but Obama has repudiated the preacher’s comments.

Seventy-three percent (73%) of voters say that Wright’s comments are racially divisive. That opinion is held by 77% of White voters and 58% of African-American voters. In addressing the issue, Obama warned against injecting race into the campaign .

Most voters, 56%, said Wright’s comments made them less likely to vote for Obama. That figure includes 44% of Democrats. Just 11% of voters say they are more likely to vote for Obama because of Wright’s comments.

http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/people2/just_8_have_favorable_opinion_of_pastor_jeremiah_wright

[jimshoes]

1. He's Vice President material

with numbers like that.

[tandem5]

87. heh

[0007]

2. Where one go to vote?

[Horse with no Name]

3. and those 8% are on DU. n/t

[goldcanyonaz]

4. Touche!

[EFerrari]

8. You bet. We used to be called liberals. n/t

[barb162]

13. You forgot Kos?

LOL

[Horse with no Name]

17. I know nothing about KOS

Never liked it, so I can't comment on that.

[barb162]

27. Well, Clinton supporters are having a strike there because Clinton has been

attacked so viciously.

[Horse with no Name]

35. I can understand that

They've been attacked here as well.
It is shameful.

[againes654]

57. Yeah

that street has only run one way. Clinton supporters have been so fair and have NEVER attacked Obama or his supporters at all. :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Horse with no Name]

61. Attacking Clinton or Obama

is different than attacking his supporters on this website. obamites are the WORST offenders of personal attacks and insults.

[againes654]

68. That is your opinion

I have seen some vicious attacks on Obama SUPPORTERS by Hillary supporters. DU is almost hard to stomach any more

[Iceburg]

23. KOS is still licking it's 2004 Dean wounds ...what would they know about events transpiring in 2008?

[barb162]

29. Good point!

[rodeodance]

38. I think you are right--I have not visited lately--but many have Chip on their shoulders.

[BigDDem]

39. Don't forget...

kos is also an unpaid adviser to Sen Ned Lamont.

:rofl:

[cali]

71. Like it or not, Kos is far and away the most influential blog on the internet

Why do you think so many prominent politicians post there? Everyone from Kennedy and Kerry to Waxman and Pelosi. Not to mention the majority of dems running for office- including Foster who was just elected in Illinois' 14th. And it's absurd to say kos is licking any wounds. He's now a power in dem politics- far more than he was 4 years ago. Only an idiot would claim kos is irrelevant. If it were true, all the dems running for prez wouldn't have shown up at the kos convention last year.

[elixir]

84. I'm with you. KOS must be still hurting after the way Dean has mishandled this race.

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[MNDemNY]

6. Oh, poor widdle obamatron.

:crazy: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :crazy:

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[MethuenProgressive]

55. Thanks, mods!

Man, I can't wait til we have a nominee and the HillHaters all leave!
If it's Obama they'll leave to support McCain as planned, if its Hillary they'll get tos'd!
Yay for DU!

[barb162]

14. That's really an adult comment.

:sarcasm:

[Slagathor]

18. Do actually support the Mets?

I'm an Obama supporter myself and I just don't see the Mets as being a team representative of our candidate. I'm a Yankees fan and I'm pretty sure that the Yanks are much more in the style of Obama. I think you ought to switch.

[QC]

21. LA LA LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!!!

[citizen snips]

24. OMG facts are painful!

[burythehatchet]

44. What's painful is watching a group of dipshits promoting a poll about a guy

who last month 99.9% of people had no idea about. And now we have a national poll about his favorability numbers.

But I do understand. With the democratic nomination having been decided a month ago, The Hillaroid Clone Army must find something, ANYTHING to keep their delusions alive.

Best of luck. Maybe Rezko...oh never mind, that's over too.

[citizen snips]

73. The truth will out.

[rodeodance]

34. The cure for SOUR GRAPES IS lots of sunshine. --

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5. I really wish you all would take your polls and shove them into your butts.

[endarkenment]

7. What is he running for again?

[MNDemNY]

11. Adviser to the Lord -God-Obama.

[endarkenment]

28. I cannot wait for DU to declare primary season 'over'.

[MNDemNY]

32. Yes then we can all rally behind the nominee.

Hopefully neither of these two losers. Gore '08!

[endarkenment]

75. You do realize that you are delusional, right?

it is going to be Obama, unless for some unlikely reason he doesn't show up in Denver.

[MNDemNY]

77. If it is, Hello President McCain!

[durrrty libby]

9. It is encouraging to see that most people condemn that militant crap

[barb162]

45. Amen. n/t

[ima_sinnic]

10. oh, Wright is running for president now?

when did that happen?

and I'm sure rasmussen was easily able to word the questions so that a vast majority would respond in whatever way was most favorable for pukes and puke-lites (i.e., anti-obama, pro billary).

[libbygurl]

56. Sez who? Got a difft news source there?

nt

[BigDDem]

12. Ok "Wright is right" crowd

let the spinning begin.

Most voters, 56%, said Wright’s comments made them less likely to vote for Obama

but, but, but.....

[barb162]

19. Wright's racist crap doesn't play too well with most Americans.

Who would have thought that / Too bad for Obama.

[goldcanyonaz]

25. He's the new hero around here.

[barb162]

42. 73% think his comments are racially divisive

"Seventy-three percent (73%) of voters say that Wright’s comments are racially divisive."

That should be 100% but maybe some weren't paying attention to the news the last few days.

[jasmine621]

60. History is racially divisive. Live with it! nt

[EFerrari]

40. Racist crap doesn't play too well which is why Obama is winning

this contest.

[barb162]

49. Not according to this poll.

[EFerrari]

52. That poll has no delegates. n/t

[EFerrari]

33. What, are we sheep? I'm supposed to dance away from social justice

because of a poll?

Wright is right. Not politic, but right. Obama can handle it fine just as he's handled every other time the Clinton campaign has injected race into this contest.

[barb162]

51. Wright is Wrong. Dance away from Wright's racist comments

such as whites gave AIDS to black people.

[EFerrari]

53. And, he didn't say that. Nice try, though.

His remark was about the government -- which has given disease to black Americans.

See, this is exactly what the Clinton campaign does. Thanks for the illustration.

[barb162]

72. You mean the white run US government?

That was reputed scientifically a few decades ago. LAst the scientists looked, AIDS started in Africa, not from the US government.

[EFerrari]

76. Fall all over yourself spreading this hatred.

It's worked so well for Hillary so far.

[Orsino]

15. Based on a few sound bites from the MSM.

Highly selective ones, too. Wonder who picked 'em?

[barb162]

22. It's a few too many. One would have been more than enough.

[Orsino]

37. We do tend to fall for that crap.

One is enough for those who had already made up their minds, of course, but the Wright campaign's visceral appeal is aimed at those without strong opinions or intellects. It doesn't seem to have been very effective, but it was only designed to make us a little stupider, to peel away a few votes.

[barb162]

59. One is too many. That poll indicates Obama is slipping big and fast.

That unity message doesn't work when people understand he actually had that racist fool on his campaign committee. And he only took that racist fool off his campaign when the heat got turned up.

[stillcool]

43. I see that you don't really care...

about who the man is, the life he's led, or the sermons he has given through-out his lifetime. You just want one clip, that's all just one, to use as a weapon. You seem so pleased to eviscerate a human being's life, on the chance, you yourself will benefit from it.

[barb162]

65. I guess that you don't care about this man's virulent racist comments

If this is what the man is about, why are you defending him? Do you think those clips are just the tip of the iceberg? BTW, who do you think made those tapes? Was he so embarrassed being taped that he stopped ranting the racism?

[EFerrari]

70. Hillary, is that you?

[stillcool]

82. I don't judge a persons...

worth by a few excerpts. I do not disagree with the fact of blowback, or some of the horrific things done by my government in my name, but I do disagree with the language Reverend Wright used to make his point. Other than that I do not know enough to judge the man, nor his life's work. I do have a problem with pedophile priests, but I don't blame those people who accepted spiritual guidance from someone who committed crimes against little boys either. Weird. I guess I'm just not as quick to condemn human beings, regardless of their color, as you are.

[Orsino]

83. I think those are out-of-context clips that you're using exactly the way They want you to...

...for reasons that I suspect don't have anything to do with concern over racism. I agree with most of what's in those clips, and I haven't heard the entire sermons.

I can't wait to be called a racist for supporting Obama, though. :7

[Hepburn]

16. Wow, how relevant....I can see where this is squarely on point...

...to just about EVERY issue in the primary and GE. Like war, poverty, health insuramce.

The only thing I can see that has a nexus to this, frankly, is that Wright's negatives are almost as bad as Queen Hillary's!

:rofl:

You earn a STUPID THREAD AWARD!

[gasperc]

20. and 92% don't know who the fuck he is

[Exilednight]

26. I wish rasmussen would actually put the numbers up for polls.........

one thing the it doesn't tell you is how many people were actually polled.

Here's what I'm getting at.

If you poll 100 people, and only 10 have heard of Wright, and 7 had an unfavorable opinion, then your number of unfavorables is 70% of people responding, but that would mean that 90% of overall people polled never heard of Wright.

[Ka hrnt]

79. They did.

"Survey of 1,200 Likely Voters
March 14-16, 2008 "

To the right, above the blue and white boxes. And for the record, "Sixty-six percent (66%) of voters say they have read, seen, or heard news stories about Wright’s comments."

[Exilednight]

80. I see the 1200 voters, but where do you see 66%?

[Ka hrnt]

89. The penultimate paragraph, to sound high-falutin.

Second to last paragraph. ;)

[rodeodance]

30. "56%, said Wright’s comments made them less likely to vote for Obama."

[rodeodance]

31. REC--to the GREATEST

[MethuenProgressive]

36. Obama based keynote speech and "Audacity of Hope" on Wright's sermon "Audacity to Hope"

Honest!
You can't make this chit up:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5119467

[durrrty libby]

50. But the perfect title would have been The Audacity of Hype

[moobu2]

54. lol ....The Audacity of Hype

[demokatgurrl]

41. Is Jeremiah Wright running for something?

I cannot imagine wny Rasmussen is actually taking polls on the "favotability" of Wright! What a waste of time just to make a story.

Both candidates should be reminding the press and pollsters- and, dare I say, the VOTERS- that we still have separation of state and church in this country, and pastor Wright will not be in the White House and having a say in matters of state.

At least, we should hope not.

[goldcanyonaz]

47. They took polls on Ferraro too.

[slinkerwink]

58. where? can you link me?

[goldcanyonaz]

62. Sure, link inside.

37% Have Favorable Opinion of Ferraro

http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/people2/37_have_favorable_opinion_of_ferraro

[slinkerwink]

64. that's still depressing that 37% thought Ferraro was right

[ElsewheresDaughter]

66. Yes he was running for Obama's Director of The Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.....

and yes it is a real department of the Oval Office created by Bush

[Bluenorthwest]

74. You know,

I've been begging Obama's campaign to seperate Church and state for many months now. He's the one who brought religious based gay baiting to our Party last fall. He's the one who said religious bigots are 'good decent and moral people' and he has often promised that he will continue to listen to them, and have a seat for them at the table when discussing the rights of those they see as 'cursed' and 'demonized'. That does not sound like seperation to me, it sounds like McClurkin and Caldwell will be invited to the White House and given face time to bash gays.
Obama has been asked thousands of times to simply say he will not be using gay bashers ever again as a candidate nor as President, and he refuses. He will not even promise that there will be no bashing of any American minority at his Inaugural celebration, not even that.
So this is not the first Preacher to upset people in the Obama campaign, the first one was defended to the end. No aplogy. No promise of no more attacks. In fact, he praised the bigots, and pointed out that he agrees with them and with Dick Cheney on Gay equality. Great.
Obama has mixed religion into his campaign like no Democrat I have ever seen. And the religion he brings seems to always divide. Obama has in fact refused to promise that McClurkin and Caldwell won't be in the White House. To ask that people assume he will practice the opposite of what he says and what he does is a bit much. 'Faith and Family' tour, with full baiting and regalia.
He should have kept religion out of the campaign. He should never have defened the bigots. I'm sorry to break it to you, but Obama did this whole thing himself. He invited the bashers, he promoted Wright in his books and such. He uses whomever whenever. Like the Iraq War, he says he disagrees, but he'll pay for it anyway.
Let him promise no more Evangelbashers. Let him clearly state that no minority shall ever again be spoken against at any of his events or in his White House. He held Donnie close when he was asked to denounce him. That is the fact. Said Donnie 'only wants to cure the unhappy ones'. That is not seperation at all- that is other people's dogma being foisted off as political thought.

[BeyondGeography]

48. What was Marc Rich's approval rating after the pardon?

(In other words, who gives a shit?)

[barb162]

67. A lot of people care. Including Obama, who was running around Friday

to every TV station trying to put this fire out.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

63. Who gives a flying fuck! Hillary's favorable opinion is not much higher.

[barb162]

69. "Most voters, 56%, said Wright’s comments made them less likely to vote for Obama."

[uponit7771]

81. Good, he shouldn't run for president

[IndianaGreen]

85. Most of which based their judgments on a MSM soundbite

The same people that thought Iraq had WMD and Saddam was pals with bin Laden.

[MNDemNY]

86. Too bad they vote.

[LanternWaste]

88. Well, since neither candidate is a pastor,

Well, since neither candidate is a pastor, and this Pastor Wright doesn't make policy, it seems almost... irrelevant to this particular voter.

But, if the people want circuses more than bread, it appears this campaign cycle is delivering.