Photo credits: blogs.bet.comDan Harris and Olivia Sterns at ABC News on Monday discuss the effects from the latest firestorm emanating from Trinity UCC in Chicago on Obama’s favorability ratings:
“The racially inflammatory remarks of a second preacher connected to Sen. Barack Obama have reignited a divisive racial debate that undermines his candidacy's unifying theme and appears to be hurting his chances in the general election this fall.”
Harris and Sterns quote NPR’s Juan Williams:
‘“People identify Obama as young, energetic, telegenic, intelligent, talking about change and unifying the races. Then the second thing that comes to mind is, 'Gee, what about this Rev. Wright? What about Father Pfleger? Why is he associated with these people who are so inflammatory and mean-spirited and even racial?”’
Williams added:
‘“Barack Obama's favorability ratings have been sinking, especially with the swing voters as we head toward the general election: white women, Jews, Latinos; it's a real problem," Williams said.”
Harris and Sterns cite the numbers:
“A recent Pew poll shows that the Democratic presidential candidate's lead has slimmed dramatically to 47-to-44 percent in a hypothetical general election matchup against presumptive GOP nominee Sen. John McCain of Arizona. The tightening coincides with a dip in Obama's favorability ratings, which have slipped 8 percentage points to 51 percent since late February, just before the Wright controversy broke.”
Read the entire Harris and Sterns article here.
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