The Campaign Spot ( Poll: 52% less likely to support Obama)

Rarely will you see such wildly disparate polling results as in the wake of Obama's speech.

Sixty-nine percent of voters who have heard or read about Obama’s speech say he did a good job addressing the issue of race relations, and 63 percent of voters following the events say they agree with Obama's views on race relations. Seventy-one percent say he did a good job explaining his relationship with Wright. When registered voters were asked if Obama would unite the country, however, 52 percent said yes - down from 67 percent last month.

But the results of the latest Insider Advantage poll on the Obama-Wright controversy are jaw-dropping.

First, 82 percent of respondents are aware of "the situation regarding Sen. Barack Obama's church pastor and the past public remarks he has made," and somehow, 83 percent are aware of "Obama's speech on Tuesday, in which he addressed the issue of his pastor." (Okay, who's the one percent who knew about the speech but not the 'situation'?)

Asked of all voters, "taking all this into account, are you more likely or less likely to support Obama for president" — 20 percent more likely, 49 percent less likely, 27 percent about the same.

Among those who answered that they were "aware" to the first two questions, 19 percent said they were more likely to support Obama, 52 percent said they were less likely, and 27 percent the same.

Among whites, the "less likely" answer came from 51.3 percent. Among blacks, it was 56.2 percent. (!) Among Hispanics, 54.5 percent. (The sub-sample sizes for blacks and Hispanics were 85 and 46, so it's possible that maybe it's too small a sample to get a really good reading on these demographics).

Among Republicans, the "less likely" crowd was 53.7 percent, among Democrats it was 47.6 percent, among Independents it was 55.6 percent.

“In my weekly Creators Syndicate column that I penned just hours before this poll, I wrote that I had no idea how the country would react to the Obama speech,” said Matt Towery, CEO of InsiderAdvantage.

“And I’m always wary of polling race. People aren’t always completely forthcoming on such a touchy subject.

“But there’s no way around the numbers as they read all across the board. They are consistent in every demographic we measured. Most people didn’t have a gut positive reaction to Obama’s speech,” he said.

The pollsters at InsiderAdvantage note that they "carefully crafted the poll’s questions. We never mentioned the words ‘race’ or ‘controversy,’ or explained what all the fuss was about. Our first question was simply, ‘Are you aware of the situation regarding Sen. Barack Obama’s church pastor and the past public remarks he has made?’"

Is it possible that some folks don't want to admit to a pollster that Obama's speech made them less likely to support him?

And now I’ll take the gloves off;

Barrack aligned himself with, became good friends with and chose as his spiritual advisor a Black Pantheresque radical racist. Then Obama spun it into a condescending lecture to all the Aunt Whiteys out there who should feel guilty and vote for (or at least not attack) him. If McCain had David Duke or Jerry Falwell as his spiritual advisor, he’d be attacked so savagely there wouldn‘t be anything left of his carcass. But when Obama spins his involvement in a racist, radical church into a reason he is post-racial, it’s indeed a daring political dodge, spin, turn, parry and thrust. But he’s attacked himself by showing that he is indeed NOT the leader to help heal America‘s racial wounds.

If Obama were the next Martin Luther, the next unity leader, the next great racial healer, wouldn’t he be able to make some impact on a very racist, radical church over the course of twenty years?

Or is Obama really just a political opportunist who will pander to the worst parts of the American soul to get elected, institute socialism and weaken our hand with Islamofascists?

In contrast, McCain is looking presidential on his trip to Iraq without getting drug into the weeds of a race debate. The more the press plays up his gaff on Iran, the more they’ll have to attack the Dems’ gaffs on foreign policy. The liberal media won’t cover them equally but I welcome that debate. The news has reduced their coverage of Iraq to a low 4%. At least they’re replacing coverage of Iraq with a half-hearted conversation about the pastor disaster.

Signed,
Your Typical White Person

Posted this elsewhere; fits here too:

Having retired a few years ago from a major public (and very liberal) University in Chicago that is located somewhat close to the area where Wright preached in his Church, I know very well the type of Black that attends Wright’s Church, as I worked with many of them. The University I worked at hired many Blacks from the near southside of Chicago as employees. Many of them have a chip on their shoulder about Whitey (and Jews, and surprisingly or maybe not so, against many Orientals too).

As the University hired many Hispanics from the nearby neighborhoods also, it was interesting that most of the Hispanics and Blacks did not like each other either. Then, of course, just to throw more into the melting pot, there were a bunch of Palestinian students at the University also, who would march around with whatever the grievance du jour was on campus. Lots of Chinese students too, as Chinatown was close by, but I never could tell what they were thinking about any of this.

My point being, I know only too well the attitudes of many of the Blacks in that area of Chicago, and it ain’t pretty. Obama is lying to us. He has been indoctrinated for 20 years by his Preacher’s sermons and by his personal friendship with him. That none of it would have rubbed off on him is total nonsense. Beware the wolf in sheep’s clothing. That is Obama. One of the women I worked with was, like Obama, half black and half white. She was embarrassed by the half white part, and tried to out-Black the Blacks in Blackness as a result. Same with Obama, who has two strikes against him in his own Black community. First, he was not born and raised in America, started out life as a Muslim, and until his middle teen years, did not live here. And he lived much of his life in Hawaii, that has many racial types living there, thus somewhat insulated from the Black mainland experience. He has not had the southern Black experience with blatant racism that still existed for many Blacks growing up in this country up until the 60’s hit and the Republicans helped Johnson finally get the Civil Rights Act passed.

Plus, he has that White side to his family, as much as he has tried to hide it up until now when he had to pull his Grandma out of the White family closet in order to throw her under the train. So, Obama, being politically ambitious, joined this radical thinking Blacker than Black Church to add to his “I’m Black” credentials while building his political career. Unfortunately for him, he is now at a point in his political career where all that Black nationalism and hatred of Whitey, Jews, etc. is now a liability rather than a virtue to give him street “cred”. So he first tried to hide his affiliations with his Black Church and its controversial Preacher, and his friendship with Bill Ayers (the 60’s homegrown terrorist, who, by the way, is now a Professor at the University I retired from in Chicago). However, the cat got let out of the bag, and Sean Hannity kept hitting hard at Obama’s Preacher man. And now that which was once of great benefit to him, is now all to his detriment. I guess what went around has now come around. Obama is a very clever, well spoken con artist, hiding his true stripes from the all too often naive public. But you can’t fool all of the people all of the time, and now, as his own Preacher man said when claiming the U.S. deserved what it got when we were attacked on 9/11, “the chickens have come home to roost.”

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