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Two editorial writers for the Kansas City Star ask how the wreck of Wright will affect some important endorsers of Obama in the midwest.

Two of Barack Obama?s most important endorsements from America?s Heartland are from Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill and Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.

But how will the controversy that now surrounds Obama and his long-time pastor, Jeremiah Wright Jr., affect those endorsements?

At the very least, both Midwesterners will face pressure from Missourians and Kansans to back off their earlier enthusiastic support of Obama.

Both Sebelius and McCaskill will be watching very closely in the days ahead as Democrats in their states react to Wright?s offensive words.

At some point, Sebelius and McCaskill will have to decide how strongly they will campaign for Obama in the light of those remarks.

Since many Democratic politicians with conservative or moderate constituencies have supported tough crime measures over the years, the editorialists point out, they are likely to take offense as readily as Republicans to Wright?s singing ?God Damn America? because, among other reasons, of policies ?punishing the nation's blacks with drugs, prisons and a three-strike law.?

Full post as published by Discriminations on March 17, 2008 (boomark / email).