Poll Finds Obama Isn’t Closing Divide on Race

Obama Campaign and Surrogate, TMP Election Central tell N.Y. Times ‘Change your poll to reflect better on Barack.’

Obama-NYTs honeymoon ends
Campaign press office irked over reporting

When the Messiah Obama doesn’t like the results of a ‘NY Times Poll‘ Barack follows his own slogan, “CHANGE“ the results.

Around midnight on July 16, New York Times chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney received a terse e-mail from Barack Obama’s press office. The campaign was irked by the Times latest poll and Adam Nagourney and Megan Thee’s accompanying front-page piece titled Poll Finds Obama Isn’t Closing Divide on Race, which was running in the morning’s paper. Nagourney answered the query, the substance of which he says was minor, and went to bed, thinking the matter resolved.

But, the next morning, Nagourney awoke to an e-mail from Talking Points Memo writer Greg Sargent asking him to comment on an eight-point rebuttal trashing his piece that the Obama campaign had released to reporters and bloggers like The Atlantic Marc Ambinder and Politico’s Ben Smith. Nagourney had not heard the complaints from the Obama camp and had no idea they were so steamed. I’m looking at this thing, and I’m like, “What the hell is this?” Nagourney recently recalled. “I really flipped out.”

Later that afternoon, Nagourney got permission from Times editors to e-mail Sargent a response to the Obama memo. But the episode still grates. I’ve never had an experience like this, with this campaign or others, Nagourney tells me. I thought they crossed the line. If you have a problem with a story I write, call me first. I’m a big boy. I can handle it. But they never called. They attacked me like I’m a political opponent.

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