Cleaning up a mess from the media:
Obama responds to coverage of Rev. Jerimiah Wright with an honest speech about race relations in America. What was the effect?

The Storm...
This is a clip of one of Wright's sermons that appeared on FOX



The Clean-Up...
This is a clip from Obama's national addrees where he responds to the media's coverage of his minister




The Effect...

After Obama made his eloquent speech about race, the reactions were mixed. Some said the speech was an honest look at the real condition of race relations in America that would help his campaign. Others thought the media coverage of his pastor would severly hurt his campaign. Here's what the numbers say from usnews.com:

"Before the Wright revelations, Rasmussen in its nightly tracking showed Obama ahead of Clinton nationally 48 percent to 41 percent, a statistically significant 7 percentage point lead. On March 18, the day of Obama's Philadelphia speech, that was reduced to a 45 percent to 44 percent lead. The most recent results, reported March 24, showed Clinton ahead 46 percent to 44 percent. In other words, over two weeks, Obama was down 4 percentage points, Clinton up 5 percentage points—major movement, given the usually glacially show movement in Rasmussen numbers."

To watch Obama's entire speech on race relations click here.
To read an interview with Obama conducted by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review about his minister's sermons, click here.