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Voters Unchanged after Wright Controversy
Posted on: May 05, 2008
Recent poll shows conducted by Times/CBS News Poll reveal that a majority of the American voters are unchanged over the strained relationship between Senator Obama and his former pastor Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
Most of the Americans have approved Sen. Obama’s comments on Wright as appropriate. The controversy has not affected much the opinion of the American voters on Obama.
A substantial part of the Democrats are of the opinion that Obama had acted mainly because he thought it would help him politically. But an adequate amount of them expressed misgivings about Mr. Obama’s relationship with Mr. Wright, which could sway a relatively small but potentially important group of voters in the remaining primaries.
The poll conducted in February showed that 59 percent were in favor of Obama and only 28 percent were with Clinton, but the recent poll survey shows that the two were essentially tied.
Fifty-eight percent of respondents said in New York Times that Mr. Obama was “tough enough to make the hard decisions a president has to make.” Seventy percent said the same of Mrs. Clinton, and 71 percent of Mr. McCain.
But the majority of voters have opined that candidates calling for the suspension of the federal gasoline tax this summer were acting to assist themselves politically, rather than to lend a hand to ordinary Americans.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has made the suspension of gas tax as focus of her campaign in recent days. Across Indiana both Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton have debated intensely over the gas-tax holiday.
The survey also reveals that in the days leading up to the primaries on Tuesday in Indiana and North Carolina, Americans were divided over the intrinsic worth of the gasoline-tax suspension, which has also been backed by the presumptive Republican nominee, Senator John McCain, and condemned by Mr. Obama as political gimmickry.
As it is getting near to decide in the North Carolina and Indiana primaries on Tuesday, both Obama and Clinton have geared up to put their maximum efforts and pull the voters towards them.
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