Poll: Voters souring on McCain, Obama stays steady

[lligrd]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to the public's image of John McCain, it's as if somebody dialed the electricity down in the past month. For Barack Obama, the juice is still flowing.

People's regard for the Republican presidential nominee has deteriorated across-the-board since September, an Associated Press-Yahoo! News poll showed Friday, with McCain losing ground in how favorably he's seen and in a long list of personal qualities voters seek in White House contenders.

Perceptions of Obama have improved or remained steady. Beyond views of the two rivals' character traits, McCain faces another problem — Obama is more trusted on the economy, the contest's commanding issue, including a 15-percentage-point edge for better grasping how the raging financial crisis is affecting people.

Obama's image has been sturdy even as voters' views of the overall campaign have tumbled downhill since September. The portion of people saying the contest excites them has sunk to 32 percent while those calling it frustrating have grown to 41 percent — and in both cases, six in 10 of those whose feelings have worsened are McCain backers.



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[callous taoboy]

1. Fantastic! Go Obama!

[lonestarnot]

2. Sour Power! woot!

Power to the People!

[Virginia Dare]

3. What a shocker that people are dialing down..

on a bitter angry old curmudgeon who offers us more of the same. I'm actually gaining back a tiny bit of faith in this country.

[Politicalboi]

4. AIP needs to be

In the spotlight. This is absolute bullshit. Is Bill Ayres going to be the MSM talking point from now till Nov 5th? Who knows it probably will go further. So much more corruption on MaGoo and Palin but they keep talking Ayers.

[MagicKenny]

5. No Time to Let Up, Though...

...for me, the comfort zone is a fat double-digit margin across the board. It's harder to steal elections that way. Let's keep pushing the message - Obama/Biden IS change!

[Kalifornia.Kid]

6. McCain has fallen and can't get up.

[Az_lefty]

7. Saw McSame on Letterman last night and he's pathetic.

I don't see how anyone could vote for him at this point.

[ryanmuegge]

8. I know that noted right-wing radio host Lionel says that McCain will be loved after this

because he'll reinvent himself into an affable figure ala Bob Dole. I think McCain may come out of this damaged irreparably in the minds of the public (even those who don't care about politics). A lot of people like to act like McCain just sold his soul for this campaign, but I think he really had no soul to begin with. We have seen the real McCain: an idiotic, irresponsible, racist political opportunist who only knows how to exploit and exaggerate his Vietnam POW status.

[greenman3610]

9. Doing Master Card and Viagra commercials

that works

[llmart]

10. Well, after all.....

he is a sourpuss.