Voters Disagree With Obama's Comments Demeaning Small Town America
Dont Tell Me I Cling To Religion And Guns Because I'm Bitter.
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Rasmussen reports finds that 56% of voters nationwide disagree with Obama’s statement that people in small towns “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." Only 25% agree with Obama and 19% are not sure.
Rasmussen confirms what many of us have been saying -- this is a bigger problem for Obama in November:
Partisan and ideological differences suggest that the comments are more likely to be a factor in the General Election than in the Primaries. A plurality of politically liberal voters—46%--agree with Obama’s statement while 33% disagree. Moderate voters take the opposite view and disagree by a 51% to 27% margin. Seventy-four percent (74%) of conservatives disagree with Obama’s statement, only 12% agree.
Democrats are fairly evenly divided—34% agree with Obama and 43% disagree. Generally, Obama supporters agree with him while Hillary Clinton’s supporters disagree.
Republicans overwhelmingly disagree with the statement and unaffiliated voters disagree by a two-to-one margin.
Voters under 30 are evenly divided on Obama’s statement while their elders strongly disagree. Fifty-three percent (53%) of African-Americans agree with Obama’s statement while 29% disagree. White voters disagree by a 3-to-1 margin.
Forty-five percent (45%) say that Obama’s comments reflect an elitist view of small town voters. Thirty-seven percent (37%) disagree. Republicans overwhelmingly say that the statements are elitist and most Democrats disagree. Among unaffiliated voters, 40% say they represent an elitist view while 34% disagree.
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This poll also confirms that Obama is winning the PR battle by keeping the main stream media focused on the "bitter" and "frustrated" part of his San Francisco comments rather than the part that offends small town America "[T]hey cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations:"
Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters agreed with Obama’s statement that “People are fed up. They're angry and they're frustrated and they're bitter, and they want to see a change in Washington.” Just 32% disagree. Most Democrats and most unaffiliated voters agree with Obama on this point. Clinton’s campaign initially challenged Obama’s use of the word “bitter” but quickly changed its focus to the more controversial aspects of Obama’s statement.
The main stream media's coverage favoring Obama's talking points is further evidence the main stream media is still suffering from its admitted case of Obamamania.
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It looks like his comments have hurt the new messiah in the PA contest.
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This weekend I spent working at my off the grid PA cabin. Although I took a firearm with me, I did not shoot (too much work to do) and therefore was not able to reduce my "bitterness". My son and wife attended the local church about ten miles away. (I didn't notice any "bitterness" when they left or returned). I did not go along as I normally do, because I wanted to see how my GSP pup would respond with everyone gone and him left alone in his crate. He did fine and I can now continue to join my wife and son at church. I am sure my alleged bitterness will all but disappear.
I cannot believe the bile that spews from the mouths of some liberals and now regret that I did not change my party affiliation to vote in the PA primary next week.
I just heard a radio commercial from the BO camp saying what a great friend of the hunter he is. The voice was a "sportsman" from Illinois and it was obvious that BO is in some kind of damage control. The commercial did not help.
I was not a huge McCain loyalist but this sealed the deal. I will be voting against the dem whoever it is.
I can't believe 25% of Americans agree with that idiot. No wonder there is division in this country. We are residing with a bunch of morons.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100 percent.
I am starting to believe John Edwards was on to something. Unfortunately, he didn't define correctly what the two America's are.
One is the people who love this country and only want to make it better. The other is that minority(25%) that have never liked America and want it to "CHANGE!".
Want to guess which one Obama speaks for?
The MSM is making the exact same mistake in 2008 that they made in 1980: They are seeing only the anger, not the target of the anger.
Americans have every right to be angry when things aren't going well. I remember they were angry in 1980 too. But they weren't angry at AMERICA then, and they're not angry at America now either.
They're angry at the poor quality of the political leadership in Washington. And they should be. But America as a country, most still love with all their hearts.
That's the difference.
The hard-core Left isn't just upset with Bush or Hillary or Pelosi or any other bunch of current politicians. They have been angry at the nation itself for as long as I can remember.
During the Clinton Administration, the anger of the Left never let up for a moment. You could go to left-wing forums like www.commondreams.org, and just read one column after another slamming America, endlessly:
"The U.S. did this wrong"
"The U.S. did that wrong"
"U.S. society is flawed"
"U.S. history is evil"
"U.S. history is bloody"
"The U.S. is racist"
"The U.S. is ignorant"
"The U.S. is unjust"
"The U.S. is warlike"
"U.S."...."U.S."...."U.S."....
endlessly.
You would never know, from reading this stuff, that there are any other nations on Earth, or that any other nations might have ever done anything wrong in the last 200 years.
Googling for the phrase "international law" on www.commondreams.org returned a couple THOUSAND hits of articles and columns criticizing the U.S. for violating some aspect of international law, and maybe only two or three critizing some other nation (I remember one criticized Norway over violating some fishing treaty). And that was before Bush even became President!
Most other Americans think there is quite a lot of basic goodness in this country, which the incompetent politicians in Washington can't totally wreck despite their best efforts.
But try convincing the Lefties of that sometime.
His desperate attempts to narrow the subject down to just people being bitter seem unlikely to help with him being hammered by everybody, left and right, about the rest of what he said.
Blaming the People for his failures... he must have been channeling Carter.
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