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Polls- Negative Campaign Hurts McCain

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Anonymous

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Rasmussen Poll on William Ayers

With the McCain campaign talking about 1960s radical William Ayers all the time, Rasmussen ran a poll to see what people think about him. Not surprisingly most people have an unfavorable view of Ayers that cuts across gender, age, ideology, income, race, education, and everything else. Ayers is not going to win the camper-of-the-week award. However, a more interesting question is whether all this talk of Ayers helps or hurts the McCain campaign. Republicans think it helps the campaign by 2 to 1 while Democrats think it hurts McCain's campaign by 8 to 1. Independents thinks it hurts by nearly 2 to 1. In a similar vein, 47% of self-identifying conservatives thinks it helps the campaign vs. 29% think it hurts. Among liberals the numbers are 7% and 79%. Among moderates 20% think it helps and 58% think it hurts. Thus among moderates, talk of Ayers hurts McCain by nearly 3 to 1. There is no correlation with income or education. So why does McCain keep harping on this point? Is he trying to solidify his base and doesn't give a hoot about the independents? The numbers show this is a terrible strategy as it plays to the people who are already going to vote for him but it works badly with the critical independents he desperately needs. Could it be that Steve Schmidt has drunk his own Kool-Aid and really and truly believes that talking about Ayers helps him? Surely he has the same numbers Rasmussen does. Sometimes ideology gets in the way of running an effective campaign.
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Interestingly when you look at the Montana MSU-B poll- it also believed the McCain ran the most negative campaign...

Which Candidate Has Run the Most Negative Campaign?

McCain 43.4%
Both same 21.9%
Obama 19.2%
Neither 4.7%
Undecided 10.8%

http://www.msubillings.edu/CAS/NAMS/Poll2008%20Day-1.pdf
 

TexasBred

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Oldtimer said:
Interestingly when you look at the Montana MSU-B poll- it also believed the McCain ran the most negative campaign...

Which Candidate Has Run the Most Negative Campaign?

McCain 43.4%
Both same 21.9%
Obama 19.2%
Neither 4.7%
Undecided 10.8%

http://www.msubillings.edu/CAS/NAMS/Poll2008%20Day-1.pdf

Does anybody give a ratz ass what happens in Montana ?? Just don't kill the female sheep.
 
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Just for Texasbred-- the Billings Gazette has endorsed Obama for President- for much the same reasons as General Powell gave- and because of the negative fearmongering and divisive campaign ran by the McCain group...

Gazette Opinion: Obama would be the president America needs now
By The Gazette Staff

A year ago, few people would have predicted that Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama would be their parties' nominees for president. A few months ago, when their party selections were assured, there was reason to hope that the general election campaign would be conducted on a higher level of debate than has marked recent presidential contests. So it has been a disappointment that much of McCain's campaign has focused on smearing Obama.

Enormous obstacles
McCain, who has served in the U.S. Senate many more years, reasonably called attention to the first-term Democrat's shorter tenure. Yet McCain selected a running mate who had been governor of Alaska for only two years. As troubling as Sarah Palin's lack of knowledge on national and foreign issues is her role in making the campaign rhetoric uglier and more divisive. The Palin pick was a mistake.

Like McCain, Sen. Joe Biden has a long track record in Congress and great depth of knowledge in international policy. He is a much stronger VP candidate than Palin.

Regardless of whether McCain or Obama is elected, the new president will face enormous obstacles in putting this nation on a path to prosperity that all citizens can share. Major tax policy changes should be delayed until there is substantially greater stability in the U.S. economy. The new president will have to surround himself with smart advisers and break the partisan gridlock that has paralyzed Washington, D.C. If Obama wins the White House and Democrats control both chambers of Congress, he must stand up to his own party members if they try to block reforms, refuse necessary spending restraints or bog down his proposals.

Raised by a single mother and her parents, Obama wasn't born to privilege; he earned it. He entered Harvard Law School on his own merit and graduated at the top of his class. Before being elected to the Illinois state Senate and then the U.S. Senate, he worked on the streets of Chicago on behalf of low-income residents. He's a devoted husband and father. Obama's life is the America Dream - that each citizen can better himself through hard work and higher education. He understands that affordable, accessible health care and educational opportunity for all Americans are integral to our society and our economy.


A unifying leader
At this extremely challenging time, America needs a uniter, not a divider. In this economic turmoil, America needs a thoughtful, cool-headed optimist who envisions a bright future for all citizens. After several years in which worldwide respect for America has been diminished, our great nation needs a new leader who can inspire confidence at home and abroad.

Obama is that leader. As Gen. Colin Powell said last week, Obama is the president America needs now "because of his ability to inspire, because of the inclusive nature of his campaign, because he is reaching out all across America, because of who he is and his rhetorical abilities. ... He has both style and substance."
 

TexasBred

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Oldtimer said:
Just for Texasbred-- the Billings Gazette has endorsed Obama for President- for much the same reasons as General Powell gave- and because of the negative fearmongering and divisive campaign ran by the McCain group...

Gazette Opinion: Obama would be the president America needs now
By The Gazette Staff

A year ago, few people would have predicted that Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama would be their parties' nominees for president. A few months ago, when their party selections were assured, there was reason to hope that the general election campaign would be conducted on a higher level of debate than has marked recent presidential contests. So it has been a disappointment that much of McCain's campaign has focused on smearing Obama.

Enormous obstacles
McCain, who has served in the U.S. Senate many more years, reasonably called attention to the first-term Democrat's shorter tenure. Yet McCain selected a running mate who had been governor of Alaska for only two years. As troubling as Sarah Palin's lack of knowledge on national and foreign issues is her role in making the campaign rhetoric uglier and more divisive. The Palin pick was a mistake.

Like McCain, Sen. Joe Biden has a long track record in Congress and great depth of knowledge in international policy. He is a much stronger VP candidate than Palin.

Regardless of whether McCain or Obama is elected, the new president will face enormous obstacles in putting this nation on a path to prosperity that all citizens can share. Major tax policy changes should be delayed until there is substantially greater stability in the U.S. economy. The new president will have to surround himself with smart advisers and break the partisan gridlock that has paralyzed Washington, D.C. If Obama wins the White House and Democrats control both chambers of Congress, he must stand up to his own party members if they try to block reforms, refuse necessary spending restraints or bog down his proposals.

Raised by a single mother and her parents, Obama wasn't born to privilege; he earned it. He entered Harvard Law School on his own merit and graduated at the top of his class. Before being elected to the Illinois state Senate and then the U.S. Senate, he worked on the streets of Chicago on behalf of low-income residents. He's a devoted husband and father. Obama's life is the America Dream - that each citizen can better himself through hard work and higher education. He understands that affordable, accessible health care and educational opportunity for all Americans are integral to our society and our economy.


A unifying leader
At this extremely challenging time, America needs a uniter, not a divider. In this economic turmoil, America needs a thoughtful, cool-headed optimist who envisions a bright future for all citizens. After several years in which worldwide respect for America has been diminished, our great nation needs a new leader who can inspire confidence at home and abroad.

Obama is that leader. As Gen. Colin Powell said last week, Obama is the president America needs now "because of his ability to inspire, because of the inclusive nature of his campaign, because he is reaching out all across America, because of who he is and his rhetorical abilities. ... He has both style and substance."

OT...At least they claim to have reason. Actually Powell is planting seeds for what he hopes is a future, as he knows he'll never be accepted into any conservative organization again. The best argument you can come up with is Palin's wardrobe and the fact that she took the children on some of her trips while totally ignoring the fact that at the same time she cut the travel expense side of the ledger over $400,000.
 
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