Senator Obama needs to do something and needs to do it fast. My idea at the moment is as follows:
I think that he needs to deliver a speech along the same lines as Romney did about mormonism in December. He'll hit it out of the park and as much as many here hate Chris Matthews and the rest of the media, I'm telling you that they'll fawn over it. He needs to give a speech talking about being raised by a single WHITE mother, talk about as he did in Indiana that he has little pieces of America inside him, talk about how Jeremiah Wright exposes fundamental racial fault lines in society as much as he deplores the comments, talk about how his goal will be to help us all move past the 1960's divisions, and also somehow defuse the notion that he agreed with the statements.
I'm telling you, his oratorical skills are second to none. He can hit this out of the park into the stratosphere. The gang of 500 will be floored and fawning.
This is what he needs to do to FULLY move past this incident. It'll only help him. Might even end the 70-30 White vote/90-2 AA vote divisions.
Anyway, here is the info:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/...
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.
However, among African-Americans, 29% said Wright’s comments made them more likely to support Obama. Just 18% said the opposite while 50% said Wright’s comments would have no impact.
Overall, voters are evenly divided as to whether Obama should resign his membership in the Church—42% say that he should while 40% disagree. White voters, by a 46% to 33% margin, say that Obama should leave the Church. African-American voters, by a 68% to 16% margin, say he should not. Wright retired last month as Pastor of the Church.
The story became big news in the past several days and has had at least a temporary impact on public perceptions of Obama. Last Thursday, 52% of voters nationwide had a favorable opinion of Obama. That figure has fallen to 47% on Monday (see recent daily results). In recent days, Obama has also lost ground to John McCain in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.
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