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Wright issue trickles down to other campaigns

It’s fair to say that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is a thorn in the side of Barack Obama that just won’t go away.

But Obama's pastor may haunt other candidates in other races throughout the country.

Check out this report from The Atlantic on the House race in the First District in Mississippi between Democrat Travis Childers and Republican Greg Davis.

Childers criticized the ad linking himself and the now-infamous pastor as a distraction.

Other Democrats may find themselves with the same distractions as the Congressional campaign season heats up.

-- Amy Dominello
  1. If Obama had the experience and courage to have handled the Wright issue competently, down ticket candidates would be better off.
    Obama's late and feeble handling of the Wright issue utterly looks like exactly what wright said: Obama making political decisions after working out the spin with axelrod. Its painfully obvious: Wright keeps saying the same things -- for 20 years, on the tapes Obama took to Harvard to study him, in the clips last month and this weekend. Obama just now, when it's hurting him big time while he's already tanking, decides to divorce him. Oh, sure, that's a principled stand on the issue.
    Posted by on 05/01 at 12:44 PM
  2. If a downticket candidate has actively endorsed Obama, then I think that endorsement ia a legitimate issue. It speaks to the endorser's judgement, right now; it's not something he did years ago. If the endorser has changed his mind, he can withdraw the endorsement at any time.
    Posted by on 05/03 at 11:15 PM
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