Loose lips sink ships?

Barack Obama's surge in Pennsylvania appears to have stopped after the controversy over his remarks about bitter small town voters clinging to guns and religion, according to a new poll.

But the Quinnipiac University survey, the first taken since coverage of the remarks, also doesn't show immediate evidence that Obama has been wounded.

The poll showed Hillary Clinton with a 50 percent to 44 percent lead over Obama, the same as a week earlier over Obama, who had been narrowing her lead from single digits.

I know some people in small towns are upset with Obama's statements. He admitted he should have phrased his thoughts a little differently. I understand how people in small towns who have lost jobs might be bitter and upset, but I don't get the guns and religion reference. In difficult times people often seek solace through a higher power. So I can see "clinging to religion," as a way to deal with hard times. But I don't see that as a bad thing. Whatever helps people get through, especially religion should be looked at as good.

Now explain to me how guns figure into the equation.