CBS Poll: Pastor's Remarks Hurt Obama

[LulaMay]

(CBS) A new CBS News poll finds that while most voters who have heard at least something about controversial statements made by Barack Obama's longtime pastor say their view of the Democratic presidential candidate is unchanged, a third say it has made them feel more negative about Obama.

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Of those voters, sixty-five percent said it didn’t make a difference in their view of Obama. However, of those whose opinion is changed, the net impact is very negative. Thirty percent said it made them have a less favorable view, whereas 2 percent said it made their view more favorable.

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Overall, unfavorable views of Obama are up somewhat from February. His favorable ratings remain largely unchanged at 44 percent, but there has been some movement from undecided views to unfavorable views, from 23 percent in February to 30 percent now.

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This poll was conducted among a random sample of 844 adults nationwide, including 749 registered voters, interviewed by telephone March 15 - 17, 2008. Interviewing for the questions on Wright and Obama was conducted March 16-17, 2008 among a sample of 355 registered voters. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points and five points for those questions. The error for subgroups is higher.


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/18/opinion/polls/main3948010.shtml

[scheming daemons]

1. Polls taken before today on the subject are obsolete....

See what those same polls say after everyone has heard/seen Obama's speech today.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. Wait until tomorrow. nt

[Bullet1987]

Pre-Speech...

[KittyWampus]

3. 844 adults = the American population?

[DJ13]

4. That poll is already outdated

:boring:

[Johnny__Motown]

5. Blip

[EFerrari]

6. LOL!

[mod mom]

7. conducted March 16-17-enough said.

[ericgtr]

8. Push Poll?

Q: How do you feel about Obama?
A: I like him, but I like Hillary too

Q: Have you heard about Rev Wright?
A: Who?

Q: Rev Wright is Obama's pastor and said "God damn America"
A: Really?

Q: Yes, would you like to hear a clip of it? Wait, here let me play it for you 10 times just so we are sure you got it.
A: Why that's an outrage!

Q: How do you feel about Obama?
A: I dislike him

[Kittycat]

9. Already outdated

[gabeana]

10. Almost 1/2 of Americans didn't even know about the controversy

"Forty-two percent said they hadn't heard about the comments"

From DU I thought this was everyones mind

Many post about -- thats all we talked about at church or work (wrights comments)

[loveangelc]

11. OH LOOK:

Among Democratic primary voters, unfavorable views have doubled, but favorable views remain dominant: more than six in ten Democratic primary voters are positive.

Independent voters - a group Obama has successfully courted in many primaries and would try to draw in the general election - still view him favorably, about the same as last month. Unfavorable views have risen among Republicans.


people should really stop nitpicking little snippets they like in articles...

[bellasgrams]

12. I received a call from the Dem. Party asking for a donation today

they said regardless of who the dem was we didn't want McCain in, and at that point I said I would never vote for bo and he said he was hearing a lot of that. I also told him I had watched C-Span a couple of nights ago and learned that the election was a hugh record breaking turn out and I thought it was time for Dean to go and the votes be counted. It seems I'm not the only one to feel this way.

bo's speech will have no effect on my choice. Had he not started calling people racist and accusing people of racial slurring whenever they disagreed with him I may not have changed my mind because early on he was my 3rd choice and Hillary my 4th. As far as I'm concerned race had nothing to do with the election until he and his DU followers kept banging me over the head with it.

As far as the preacher goes, what if a white candidate attended a church run by the KKK or David Duke? Don't you think people would be outraged at that? Sure they would and with good reason.

[Metta]

13. CBS is almost as unreliable as Fox.

But, I'd hate to live on the difference.

[saltpoint]

14. LulaMay, you couldn't take the long view if you were shot from a cannon.