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To: Road Walker who wrote (375237)	3/27/2008 12:55:11 PM
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POLL: Hillary popularity plunges while Obama untouched by pastor row Agence France-Presse First Posted 13:26:00 03/27/2008 newsinfo.inquirer.net. WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton's popularity has plunged to a seven-year low, while her Democratic White House rival appears to have escaped unscathed from controversy over his outspoken pastor, a poll suggested Wednesday. According to the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, Clinton received a 37 percent positive rating among the sample of registered voters, her lowest rating since March 2001, two months after she first took office as New York senator. Meanwhile her opponent saw no significant change among respondents in his positive rating, which was down only slightly to 49 percent from 51 percent two weeks ago. He also stood strong against Republican candidate John McCain, who 58 percent of voters said would be successful in uniting the country, compared to 60 percent for Obama and 47 percent for Clinton. Obama, a senator from Illinois, gave a landmark speech on race in America last week in a bid to smooth controversy over his pastor Jeremiah Wright's incendiary comments on racism and American foreign policy. While 55 percent of respondents acknowledged being "disturbed" by the oft repeated footage of the angry preacher circulating on the Internet and cable television, 45 percent of whites and 67 percent of blacks said Obama had sufficiently addressed the matter. According to Democratic pollster Peter Hart, the survey of 700 voters with a 3.7 percent margin of error is a "myth-buster" showing that the race row is "not the beginning of the end for the Obama campaign," the Wall Street Journal said. And the race for the Democratic presidential nomination appeared as tight as ever, with Obama and Clinton each drawing 45 percent support from Democrats nationwide. In a potential McCain-Obama match up, Obama led by two percent, while a hypothetical Clinton-McCain face-off in the November election to replace President George W. Bush gave McCain a two percent lead. Both figures are statistically insignificant. However, the poll found for the second time in a row that 20 percent of Democrats said they would likely throw their support to McCain if their favored Democrat did not make it to the general election. A second poll by Gallup said that 28 percent of Democrats would lend their support to McCain if Clinton were to lose the party's nomination. The Gallup poll found that said 19 percent of Obama supporters would vote for the Republican challenger if Clinton were to gain the party nod. Gallup said 59 percent of Clinton supporters would vote for Obama if he were nominated, while 72 percent of Obama supporters would vote for the former first lady if necessary. "The data suggest that the continuing and sometimes fractious Democratic nomination fight could have a negative impact for the Democratic Party in November's election," Gallup said. "When almost three out of 10 Clinton supporters say they would vote for McCain over Obama, it suggests that divisions are running deep within the Democratic Party."