No, according to this Wall Street Journal poll.
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%.
While Sen. Clinton still leads among white Democrats, her edge shrank to eight points (49% to 41%) from 12 points in early March (51% to 39%). That seems to refute widespread speculation -- and fears among Sen. Obama's backers -- that he would lose white support for his bid to be the nation's first African-American president over the controversy surrounding his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. of Chicago.
But, as Ed Morrissey of Hot Air points out, the Wright flap may not have affected Democrats--who were polled about the controversy--but the poll says nothing about what independents and Republicans who might have been trending Democrat say.
In other words, among the fellate Obama crowd, whether their candidate sat in the pews absorbing bigotted speech for 20 years is irrelevant. I'm not sure if independents will feel the same way when given choices. As Larry Kudlow has said recently, this election is shaping up into a classic Left-vs.-Right battle. We'll see which approach the American electorate prefers.
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