Rev. Wright..." has no bearing on my decision"

[progressoid]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/us/politics/02indiana.html?em&ex=1209873600&en=7de94aff90760311&ei=5087%0A

Minister’s Comments Hold Little Sway in Indianapolis Enclave

But many people, like Clyde H. Crockett, a retired law professor who was sipping a drink in a coffee shop here on Thursday, said his thoughts about Mr. Wright would have no bearing on his decision — still unfinished — about whom to vote for in Indiana’s Democratic primary on Tuesday. “Why should it?” Mr. Crockett said. “No one should be tainted because of Reverend Wright.”

The shoppers in Broad Ripple and in the neighborhoods nearby reflect a demographic group — mostly white, highly educated, professional, artsy, relatively well-off, politically independent — that has leaned toward Senator Barack Obama in other states and one that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will hope to gain an edge with here, in a state that polls show as almost evenly split.

But in interviews here on Thursday, voters said Mr. Wright’s highly publicized comments and the responses and echoes that have followed had had little bearing on them.

Supporters of both Democratic candidates said that they did not think the Wright episode should change the race but said, again and again, that they feared it might in other, less cosmopolitan areas of Indiana where they thought people might be searching for some acceptable explanation for not voting for a black candidate.

“I think Reverend Wright will give a lot of people an excuse not to vote for Obama,” Mr. Crockett said. “They’re looking for an excuse, and this will be it.”

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Others here were less put off. Some said they found Mr. Wright’s comments provocative; others viewed them as an overblown distraction to the bigger issues of the economy, health care and gasoline prices.

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Still, no one interviewed here said that Mr. Wright had affected how they or anyone they knew would vote. Michael B. O’Connor, the Democratic Party chairman for Marion County, which includes Indianapolis, said he had heard of no major shifts.

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Several undecided voters interviewed said that they were looking for a reason to go one way or another, but that Mr. Wright would most certainly not be it. “That has no bearing on my decision,” Jess McKinney, 31, said, adding that he was leaning “51-to-49” for Mr. Obama.

[Cha]

1. Oh Darn..don't tell hilary...

she'll send her jackals to scour some other wedgie.

[Double T]

2. obama is unelectable. What other possible reason would anyone need.........

to support HRC.

[DJ13]

4. obama is unelectable.

Which explains why Hillary is losing to him.

:eyes:

[Double T]

6. I'll check back with YOU in June for a retraction and YOUR PROMISE of support..........

for the NEXT POTUS, HRC.

[fascisthunter]

5. Talking Points:

Hillary.must.win.... tilt.

[progressoid]

7. Ya, that poor schmuck.

I don't know why he keeps going on. If only people would just stop giving him money...and support...and votes.

[anigbrowl]

9. That's all you ever say. I'm starting to think you have a pull string in your back

Too bad you can never think of any reasons. You just keep saying over and over that he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the GE and he's unelectable and we'll lose the zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

[donheld]

11. That makes it sound like they want Obama but

are ascared he'll not win so they're stuck with Hillary.

[donheld]

10. So in other words

You think Barack is unelectable so you feel stuck with Hillary?

[rove karl rove]

3. Mr. Crockett's a pompous ass

it's possible not to vote for Obama without an "excuse" he happens to find acceptable.

[progressoid]

8. a.k.a. elitist...

:eyes: