Tomorrow’s focus: North Carolina Update: AOL Hot Seat Poll addedposted
at 8:20 am on May 5, 2008 by Ed Morrissey

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/05/tomorrows-focus-north-carolina/

The latest New York Times and CBS poll came to the same conclusion
that Rasmussen and others have reached — that Barack Obama failed to
convince a majority of his sincerity in dumping Jeremiah Wright. Half
of the 601 respondents believe that Obama acted out of political
expediency and not conviction when denouncing Wright last week for his
lunatic statements on HIV, al-Qaeda, and organic neural differences
between white and black brains:

A majority of American voters say that the furor over the relationship
between Senator Barack Obama and his former pastor has not affected
their opinion of Mr. Obama, but a substantial number say that it could
influence voters this fall should he be the Democratic presidential
nominee, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll. …

The poll, conducted after Mr. Obama held a news conference on Tuesday
in which he renounced his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright
Jr., for making incendiary comments, found that most Americans...

Ken Livingstone’s Farewell: A Blow to British Socialism

London mayor Ken Livingstone was a symbol of what remained of Marx and
Trotsky in British mainstream politics. Now that he's gone, the Labour
Party is devoid of true left-wing radicals. That's mostly - but not
completely - good news.

May 5, 2008 - by "Jimmy Bradshaw"

Red Ken was never really so red in office but his politics were
infused with enough influences from the Marxist left to make him a
symbol of British socialism - his defeat in the London mayoral
elections effectively marks the death of that movement.

It has been a slow death for a tendency which was once at the heart of
the Labour Party, helping shape the policies which created the welfare
state, but which now lacks even a single figure around which it can
rally. There is no left-wing radical capable of garnering enough
support to even irritate the Labour leadership — Prime Minister Gordon
Brown was elected uncontested as Labour leader because the handful of
old-school socialists in parliament simply couldn’t muster enough
nominations to even get someone on the ballot.