CBS Poll: Voters Increasingly View McCain As Negative
The latest CBS News/New York Times poll will be released at 6:30pm ET today but a sneak peak at it shows that an increasing number of voters see John McCain as running a negative campaign while more see Obama as explaining what he would do as president.
Sixty four percent of registered voters said McCain is spending more time attacking his opponent, up from 61 percent who said that just over a week ago and from 53 percent in late September. Just 27 percent said he is spending more time explaining what he would do, compared to 69 percent who said that about Obama. Just 22 percent said they thought Obama was spending more time attacking McCain, down from 35 percent who said so in late September.
McCain has denied that he has attacked his candidate more often but in an interview with CBS News' Harry Smith, Obama said McCain's tone has been much more negative. "I don't think there's any equivalence between what we've been doing and what John McCain's been doing," Obama said. "Witness some of the comments that have been made just over the last several months, his last several weeks, 'Socialistic.' You know, 'Pals around with terrorists.' I mean, just - the kinds of stuff that - that I can't imagine saying about an opponent of mine."
Tune into the CBS Evening News tonight and come back to CBSNews.com at 6:30 ET for the full results of the poll.
This poll was conducted among a random sample of 1152 adults nationwide, including 1046 registered voters, interviewed by telephone October 19-22, 2008. Phone numbers were dialed from RDD samples of both standard land-lines and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample and the sample of registered voters could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher.
© 2008 CBS Interactive Inc.. All Rights Reserved. Sixty four percent of registered voters said McCain is spending more time attacking his opponent, up from 61 percent who said that just over a week ago and from 53 percent in late September. Just 27 percent said he is spending more time explaining what he would do, compared to 69 percent who said that about Obama. Just 22 percent said they thought Obama was spending more time attacking McCain, down from 35 percent who said so in late September.
McCain has denied that he has attacked his candidate more often but in an interview with CBS News' Harry Smith, Obama said McCain's tone has been much more negative. "I don't think there's any equivalence between what we've been doing and what John McCain's been doing," Obama said. "Witness some of the comments that have been made just over the last several months, his last several weeks, 'Socialistic.' You know, 'Pals around with terrorists.' I mean, just - the kinds of stuff that - that I can't imagine saying about an opponent of mine."
Tune into the CBS Evening News tonight and come back to CBSNews.com at 6:30 ET for the full results of the poll.
This poll was conducted among a random sample of 1152 adults nationwide, including 1046 registered voters, interviewed by telephone October 19-22, 2008. Phone numbers were dialed from RDD samples of both standard land-lines and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample and the sample of registered voters could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher.
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time since enlistment is at an all time low. He also wants to send troops to Afghanistan but take them out of Iraq. I sure will be glad when all this is over lol.
"Why are some Democrats worried that Mr. Obama may not necessarily be headed to the White House?
For starters, the American people like to have checks and balances. With predictions that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid will grow their liberal power bases in the House and the Senate, more Americans than reflected in various polls may decide to apply the brakes to an Obama presidency.
And I know you%u2019ve heard this before, experience does matter. Joe Biden may have inadvertently made that case for John McCain when he recently said that the world will test Barack Obama in six months. %u201CThe world is looking,%u201D he said. %u201CWatch, we%u2019re going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.%u201D I feel the American People should not have to go through this again.
- the Obamas paraded 5 children across the stage, including a 3-month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
- Obama finished 5th from the bottom of his graduating class and McCain was President of the Harvard Law Review?
- Obama was a member of the Keating 5? (5 US Senators awho ignited a political scandal as part of the Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s)
- Obama met his 2nd wife in a bar and had a affair while still married, and left his 1st wife after a severe disfiguring car accident?
- Michelle was the wife who was addicted to pain killers that she acquired illegally from her charitable organization?
Subtle or overt, racism can cover up, rationalize and minimize positive qualities in one candidate and emphasize negative qualities in another.
Barack Obama got his B.A. in Poli Sci from Columbia & his J.D. from Harvard U - Magna *** Laude.
John McCain graduated 894th out of 899 from the US Naval Academy.
This is your America, your future. Choose the next President on the basis of merit, not just race or gender.
Of course the media is not allowed to run that, or make a poll about it.
Then again Obama has clickable links to all polls for his followers to take daily.
Obama was so negative, hateful and vile, that he got half of the Democratic Party to hate Hillary, He did such a job, they still can not accept her.
His big Money backers pressure the media to run unfavorable or smear headlines about everyone, he even emails them on what he wants them to run.
Obama leads his followers to be hateful, evil and vile, attacking and smearing his opponents. That is evident every where. Just look around.
They are so Obedient with the hatred too. If that is what obama leads people to do, and to be a follower of Obama you end up being so evil. I think he is not good for our country.
Did you read that they are also investigating the validity of her statement? Did you notice that her "B" is backwards which suggests this little nut case did this stuff to herself? How did her scars heal over night? I know neosporin speeds up healing but nothing does that overnight. It should be open wounds if this just occurred yesterday. But as usual, Republicans are just looking for anything to use against Obama and it hasn''t worked. Obama is covered by the blood of Jesus Christ and no weapon formed against him shall prosper. Of course, the devil will continue to try. He''s not a terrorist, he''s not a Muslim-believe it or not, he''s not a socialist, he''s not gay, he''s not arab and believe me, if he was not a legal citizen, he would not have gotten this far so please let it go!!
BARACK, BARACK,BARACK ALL THE WAY.
ps Italian American heritage.
raspberries to McCain & Palin
she is an absolute idiot
what drug was mccain on when he picked her?