Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/shields-brooks-debate-new-polls-rev-wright-and-gas-tax Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript With North Carolina and Indiana preparing to vote, columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks discuss if Rev. Wright, the gas tax holiday or the economy may prove decisive in Tuesday's balloting. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JUDY WOODRUFF: And to the analysis of Shields and Brooks, syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks.Gentlemen, the week started with this storm over Jeremiah Wright. David, how has Barack Obama weathered the storm? DAVID BROOKS, Columnist, New York Times: He's been hurt, no question about it. If you look at the national polls, Hillary Clinton is now ahead. If you look at polls in places like Indiana, Hillary Clinton is now ahead.He's been hurt. And this is the first time we've really seen some movement in a week.And what strikes me about this is he was with hurt the second time the Wright story came about because of Wright's appearances in the National Press Club and elsewhere. He was not hurt the first time.When all the Wright videos appeared on YouTube, there was no evidence that Obama was hurt by that alliance then. So why was he hurt now and not then?And I think it's because the underlying structure of the Obama support is a little weaker, that he seems a little — he lost in Pennsylvania, he's really not explained how he's going to change Washington. And so the underlying momentum isn't there.And that having been said, I still think he's going to get the nomination, but this has been the first week where you really begin to see movement away from him.