Inevitable, Thy Name WAS Barack Obama
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008This winter, article after article talked about the huge audiences Barack Obama was drawing. Experienced pundits like Fred Barnes were saying that Barack OBama was likely to be the 44th President of the United States. What nobody was paying attention to, though, was Sean Hannity talking about Jeremiah Wright or William Ayers.
Three months after Super Tuesday, and two months after the YouTube videos showed up of Jeremiah Wright screaming about the USKKK of A and talking about the United States government creating the AIDS virus just to commit genocide against the black population, Barack Obama isn’t seen as the candidate of inevitability anymore. This article essentially says that Barack Obama has ‘come back to the pack’. ALOT.
Sen. Barack Obama’s aura of inevitability in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination has diminished in the wake of his loss in the Pennsylvania primary and the furor over his former pastor, said the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
The poll was conducted largely before Obama’s news conference Tuesday denouncing his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and may not fully capture the impact of the controversy or the response. But it found that Obama, whose delegate lead has given him a commanding position over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton since February, is now perceived to be in a much tighter fight.
Upheaval has taken a toll (more…)