No one gives a shit about the Pennsylvania comments.  Don't believe me?

Lets look at the middle of last month and the middle of this month.

March 13th - Wright controversy begins.  

Rasmussen Daily Tracking  Obama 48 Clinton 41

Gallup Daily Obama 50 Clinton 44 

March 17th (five days later)

RDT- Obama 46 Clinton 44 (Obama -5)

GD- Obama 44 Clinton 47 (Obama -3)

April 11th - PA controversy begins

RDT- Obama 47 Clinton 44

GDT- Obama 50 Clinton 42

April 15 (five days later)

Obama 50 Clinton 41 (Obama +6)

Obama 51 Clinton 40 (Obama +1)

I am gonna go ahead and say she missed the jugular.  I think she might have missed him all together.

Two more interesting things about the Wright stuff.  Obama's low point in its wake was 5-12 days after where he actually lost the lead.    A week after that he had a commanding lead again.

Y'all might consider the possibility that this whole thing is just something for TV people to talk about, conservatives to gloat over, Clintonites to dream over and Obamanauts to fret over.  It certainly doesn't seem to be anything people are going to vote over.

I will say it appears to give Hillary a bump in PA but she had been down so low it still leaves here well short of where she needs to be to even meet expectations. 

by ProfRich on 04/15/2008 02:38:35 PM EST

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