Will North Carolina Seal the Deal?
With Barack Obama making several appearances in North Carolina this week, attention is starting to focus on our role in the upcoming Presidential primary. It fills me with joy to know that my blue vote will actually matter on May 6th. With that in mind, here are some numbers released today from Public Policy Polling.
Obama 55
Clinton 34
“After a week in which Barack Obama made several appearances in North Carolina and confronted the controversy with his pastor by making a major speech on race, he has expanded his lead in North Carolina to 21 points.
Obama leads Clinton 55-34 in the state. His gains were particularly strong in the Triangle, the media market where his major speech on the war last week in Fayetteville got the greatest amount of attention.
Obama also pulled within a 47-40 margin of Clinton with white voters after trailing Clinton 56-30 last week, an indication that his speech on race in Philadelphia last week may have earned him some points.”
Way to early to tell one way or another, but it does seem to lead to the conclusion that Obama’s Reverend Wright dip is basically over in NC.
I don’t think that Obama’s dip associated with Reverand Wright is any way over in NC. I know several people who were not particularly opposed to Obama & some who were previously planning to vote for him. They are saying things such as “that hateful preaching by his minister, did it for me”, and “I never thought I would vote for Hillary Clinton until now”. Women are saying things such as, “How could Obama & his wife espose their children to such horrible untruths & not be considered unfit parents?”
Then how do you explain him actually increasing his lead over Clinton in the last week as well as making in-roads with white voters? Hillary’s lying about her Bosnia trip perhaps?
> I don’t think that Obama’s dip associated with Reverand Wright is any way over in NC.
Polls would suggest otherwise.
I stand correct.