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| Obama suffers poll damage in race |
| Obama suffers poll damage in race row
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 31-July-2009
3:35:4 AM |
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Amid a desperate effort by Barack Obama to walk away from the heated race row involving a black Harvard scholar and white policeman, the US president has suffered poll damage.
The first black president significantly damaged his standing with voters - especially white voters - when he jumped into the controversy "impulsively" earlier this month, claiming that the police acted "stupidly", according to new polling figures released yesterday.
The survey released by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre found that 41 per cent of all voters disapproved of Obama's handling of the affair, compared with just 29 per cent who approved.
The data was released just hours before the President as well as Vice-President Joe Biden had a glass of beer with professor Henry Gates and police Sergeant James Crowley, who had arrested the Harvard professor for "disorderly conduct".
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