Wright hurts Obama according to USA Today/Gallup poll

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b2adfe89-5367-4b28-81c2-0a58b27f5b54/2BF240A6-AAD7-4D54-928F-505BC433B7F8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/pl_nm/usa_politics_democrats_poll_dc" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/pl_nm/usa_politics_democrats_poll_dc" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/pl_nm/usa_politics_democrats_poll_dc">Democratic presidential contender
<SPAN id="lw_1210009789_0" class="yshortcuts">Barack Obama</SPAN>'s standing has been significantly damaged by the
controversy over his former pastor, according to <SPAN id="lw_1210009789_1" class="yshortcuts">USA
Today/Gallup poll</SPAN> published on Monday.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/pl_nm/usa_politics_democrats_poll_dc">The poll showed <SPAN id="lw_1210009789_2" class="yshortcuts">Hillary Clinton</SPAN> leading Obama 51 percent to
44 percent nationally among Democrats and Democratic-leaning
independent voters</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/pl_nm/usa_politics_democrats_poll_dc">The <SPAN id="lw_1210009789_6" class="yshortcuts">USA Today</SPAN>/Gallup results were a sharp reversal from two
weeks ago, before the latest controversy over the <SPAN id="lw_1210009789_7" class="yshortcuts">Rev. Jeremiah
Wright</SPAN>, when Obama led Clinton by 10 percentage points.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/pl_nm/usa_politics_democrats_poll_dc"><P>USA Today said the results showed the Wright controversy
had raised questions for some voters about Obama's values,
credibility and electability.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/pl_nm/usa_politics_democrats_poll_dc"><P>The USA Today poll said one-third of primary voters were
less likely to vote for Obama because of his ties to Wright.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/pl_nm/usa_politics_democrats_poll_dc"><P>The results also showed the same portion less likely to
vote for Clinton, a New York senator, because of her husband,
<SPAN id="lw_1210009789_13" class="yshortcuts">former President Bill Clinton</SPAN>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2BF240A6-AAD7-4D54-928F-505BC433B7F8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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