Not good news for Obama:
As would be expected, almost all Democratic voters who say they support Obama for their party's nomination also say they would vote for him in a general election matchup against McCain. But only 59% of Democratic voters who support Clinton say they would vote for Obama against McCain, while 28% say they would vote for the Republican McCain. This suggests that some Clinton supporters are so strongly opposed to Obama (or so loyal to Clinton) that they would go so far as to vote for the "other" party's candidate next November if Obama is the Democratic nominee.
Then again, people polled tend to lie a lot.
It caused a lively debate in the comments the last time I wrote about Obama, so it as least obvious that his candidacy raises strong emotions on both sides.
I have to say I am very impressed with Barack Obama's public appearances. His response to the Rev. Wright controversy (movie) was not only rhetorically very good, he addressed the issues in a very mature way. Obviously, it is still a concern that he could sit and listen to Wright's appalling comments for years and only distanced himself from them when he became an electoral liability.
As was pointed out, however, John McCain also has enough bigots in his camp. While he has made an issue of taking them to task in the past, the natural laws of presidential election appears to require him to now cozy up to them.
It all boils down to choosing the lesser evil. Almost everyone knows McCain doesn't mean it when he suddenly gets comfortable with the far right. That makes him a hypocrite. With Obama there may be the opposite problem: he may actually sympathise with racist bigotry on some level, but simply pretend not to.
Pick your poison. Better the devil you know, or time to try "change"?
8:28:33 PM 
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