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Looks like another hyped issue has not worked for the Man! 
| quote: | What's new: Poll signals pastor controversy didn't hurt Obama
Some of the campaign and political news making headlines this morning:
• The Wall Street Journal -- Poll busts the "myth" that pastor controversy would cripple Obama's campaign: "The racially charged debate over Barack Obama's relationship with his longtime pastor hasn't much changed his close contest against Hillary Clinton, or hurt him against Republican nominee-in-waiting John McCain, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Democratic pollster Peter Hart, who conducts the Journal/NBC polls with Republican pollster Bill McInturff, called the latest poll a 'myth-buster' that showed the pastor controversy is 'not the beginning of the end for the Obama campaign.' ... The latest survey has the Democratic rivals in a dead heat, each with 45% support from registered Democratic voters. That is a slight improvement for Sen. Obama, though a statistically insignificant one, from the last Journal/NBC poll, two weeks ago, which had Sen. Clinton leading among Democratic voters, 47% to 43%."
Related post at NBC's First Read blog: "In the general-election matchups, Obama led McCain by 2 points, and McCain led Clinton by 2 points; all margin of error results and nothing to get too excited over. One thing about these head-to-head matchups: Our pollsters found that for the second poll in a row, more than 20 percent of Clinton and Obama supporters say they would support McCain when he's matched up against the other Democrat. There is clearly some hardening of feelings among some of the most core supporters of both Democrats, though it may be Obama voters, who are more bitter in the long run."
• The Washington Post -- Another mistake in Clinton's account of trip to Bosnia: First, it was discovered that Hillary Rodham Clinton's claim to have been forced to run from her plane to waiting vehicles because of the threat of sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia in 1996 was not correct. Now, the Post says, it's also clear that her statement that no other first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt had gone to a war zone was not correct. Pat Nixon went to Saigon "at the height of the Vietnam War," and Barbara Bush traveled to Saudi Arabia two months before U.S. troops crossed into Kuwait to push Iraq out of that country.
• The Politico -- GOP looks to Dems to boost McCain's campaign: "Both the Republican National Committee and the McCain campaign are depending upon (Sen. John) McCain's potential appeal to Democrats and independents to compensate for the depleted Republican ranks. 'Democrats currently have a lead in voter identification; it's axiomatic that you have to look beyond your party's base to get to 50%,' said Frank Donatelli, the deputy chairman of the RNC. Late February polling by the RNC, passed along to top officials in the McCain campaign, also found that more Democrats said they would vote for McCain than Republicans said they would vote for Obama, according to an RNC operative and a senior adviser to the McCain campaign."
• The New York Times -- Clinton donors warn Pelosi: "Leading contributors to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton intensified their effort to keep the Democratic presidential contest alive on Wednesday and urged Speaker Nancy Pelosi to stay out of the super delegate fight, admonishing her for suggesting that the candidate ahead in pledged delegates -- now Senator Barack Obama -- should become the nominee. ... The letter, which carried threatening overtones in noting that many signatories were major Democratic donors, highlighted the deepening rift inside the party among supporters for Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama."
• USA TODAY -- Obama merchandise is hot on the Web: "The delegate race may be tight, but the user-generated merchandise race is clear, at least on the Web: Sales of Obama products, especially T-shirts, are soaring past Hillary Clinton gear. John McCain supporters, meanwhile, aren't making as much noise when it comes to personalizing paraphernalia."
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