Granted, only the first poll indicated that most Americans didn't believe Obama shared Wright's views, but I was answering in the context of "According to the previous poll you commented on". What they all show is that most Americans knew of Wright.
Um, the fact that the MSM pretty much ignored the story.
You and I have a different recollection of that situation.
Again, people knew that he gave a speech on race relations. Most people did not know or care why.
According to the polls I posted, most Americans knew about Wright.
That is EXACTLY the point my friend. Obama HAS to come after Newt's character, and Newt HAS to fire back.
There's only one problem with that. If we start screaming HUSSEIN-WRIGHT-AYERS-MUSLIM-TRAITOR as we did in 2008, Obama can easily respond by pointing out that he gave the order to kill Bin Laden and other terrorists. Yes, I know that he did it using intelligence gathered from policies that Bush implemented, and which he campaigned against. But he continued those policies, taking much criticism from his own side in the process, until OBL was dead. Do you honestly believe that screaming HUSSEIN-WRIGHT-AYERS-MUSLIM-TRAITOR will counter that, because I don't?
Americans are concerned about the economy. Many of us knew that in 2008, and we should all know it now. All we have to decide is, do we want a replay of 1980, or 2008?
I don’t know anybody but the kooks who are saying that our candidate needs to make an issue of Obama’s (irrelevant) Muslim background. So unless you point is that our guy should ignore Bill Ayres and Jeremiah Wirght (that seemed to be what you were saying originally), I’m not sure that we are in disagreement here.
What I think you are missing is the fact that of course 1/3 of voters aren’t going to care if Obama gets photographed in a hot tub with Ahmedinijad. So if half of all voters say they care about Jeremiah Wright (and were’re going to have to agree to disagree about how well the average voter knows that story), that means that at least half of all independants DO care to some extent. More importantly, MOST don’t know much or anything about Bill Ayres. And, no, the point of that information is not that Obama supports terrorism. The point is “How well do you really know this guy?” Even after four years, do you really want to put him in a position where he can do whatever he wants because he doesn’t have to worry about re-election. All of this would have been more effective the first time around, but it still has value.