While everyone is talking about the recent claims made by Obama, claiming he is elitist, I think it’s interesting to look at the impact of this fiasco upon the campaign. Despite many people being angry and the Clinton campaign running ads showing people that were hurt by the comments, new polls indicate that Obama is reaching new highs in the polls, particularly in like Pennsylvania. There are some interesting conclusions to draw from this. Namely, there is a strong argument to be had that the top concern of many voters might be which candidate they view has a better chance of dealing with actual problems, like the economy, than their perception of the candidate. This plays well into the Obama campaign’s counter-ad regarding the controversy. The new ad shows Obama talking to a variety of local groups and has a voiceover make comments about how Clinton is stuck in the same game of Washington politics while only Obama will be able to actually create change on issues like rising gas prices (and then shows a sign for gasoline). It will be interesting to see how Pennsylvania will play out given that Obama has closed the lead but the same sort of thing happened in California and didn’t work out well for Obama.
New Polls showing PA is close:
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/clinton_stalls_obama_in_pa_pol.html
ADDITION- new gallup poll showingn Obama's lead is the largest yet:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/106537/Gallup-Daily-Obama-51-Clinton-40.aspx
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