Obama camp wants to 'Move it forward' -- but can they?

MUNSTER, Ind. -- Asked repeatedly about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Friday, White House hopeful Barack Obama kept his composure as he told reporters, "What I want to do is move it forward."

Asked about Wright on Wednesday on "The Today Show," Michelle Obama said, "We've got to move forward." She told CNN that same day, "We're going to do our best to move forward."

Obama's campaign aides say only the press asks Obama questions about Wright -- the voters have already moved forward.

But Wednesday, even among a group of about 80 invited guests to a conversation in an Indianapolis park, the Obamas could not escape a question from an economics professor about disowning their longtime friend Wright.

"What we want to do now, though, is to make sure that this doesn't continue to be a perpetual distraction," Obama said.

Six days after he formally denounced his former pastor, will Obama be able to "move forward" past Wright to win Tuesday's primaries in Indiana and North Carolina over Hillary Clinton?

Most of the questions Obama fielded from Indiana voters last week were about health care, college tuition, jobs, gas prices and bringing loved ones home from fighting in Iraq.

Those are the issues he says he would like to talk about .

The last match-up in Pennsylvania went badly for Obama. He lost many rural Pennsylvania counties 75 percent to 25 percent to Clinton. Some Indiana counties resemble those Pennsylvania counties. But the Wright scandal was fresh then, and the Obama campaign hopes it is stale now. And instead of letting the cameras film him bowling a 37, as he did in Pennsylvania, Obama is letting the cameras film him shooting hoops, which he and Indiana agree on as a superior sport.