Posted by Jed Lewison on Sat May 3, 2008 at 11:34 AM Pacific

The phantom backlash and the real backlash

Al Giordano takes a look at the numbers in Charles Blow's NYT column about race and '08. Al concludes:

Look at the damn graphs. You can see that Clinton is in a staggering free-fall among African-American voters, her favorability is down 36 points while 17 percent view her more negatively than before, while Obama’s favorable and negative ratings among whites have paired at five point increases. ...he’s more popular today among white voters than he ever was prior to February.

The phantom backlash and the real backlash

Al Giordano takes a look at the numbers in Charles Blow's NYT column about race and '08. Al concludes:

Look at the damn graphs. You can see that Clinton is in a staggering free-fall among African-American voters, her favorability is down 36 points while 17 percent view her more negatively than before, while Obama’s favorable and negative ratings among whites have paired at five point increases. ...he’s more popular today among white voters than he ever was prior to February.

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