Roland Martin: Oprah could be a kingmaker

Published: September 7, 2007, 7:27 pm

Tags: black voters, black endorsements, black politics, beltway pundits, campaign surrogates, power games, roland martin, fundraising, 2008, barack obama, oprah winfrey, obama for president, politics

Hat Tip: By Roland S. Martin CNN Contributor (CNN) — It’s big news that the goddess of talk, Oprah Winfrey, is throwing a huge shindig for U.S. Sen. Barack Obama at her California estate that is expected to bring in $3 million. Oprah Winfrey should go all out in her support for Sen. Barack Obama, says Roland S. Martin. That is more than what Hollywood honchos Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and others raised in separate fundraisers for Obama and his chief rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton. No one knows for sure what the effect will be with Oprah backing Obama because she has never thrown her full support behind a political candidate. The Washington Post made it plain as to her influence on the general public, courtesy of her massive media platform: “the television program that reaches 8.4 million viewers each weekday afternoon, according to the most recent Nielsen numbers. Her Web site reaches 2.3 unique viewers each month, ‘O, the Oprah Magazine,’ has a

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