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> McCain's Age Again Seen As Major Problem For Voters
>
>
> The Huffington Post | May 13, 2008 01:38 AM
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> Obama Race Poll, Obama
> Racism, Racism Poll, Politics News
>
> Yet another poll, this one by the Wa****ngton Post and ABC News, has
found
> that Sen. John
> McCain's age appears to be a major hang-up for voters, far more so than
Sen.
> Barack Obama's
> race. From ABC's write up:
>
> Age continues to look like a major hurdle for McCain. Thirty-nine
> percent of Americans say
> they'd be uncomfortable with a president first taking office at age 72,
far
> more than say
> they'd be uncomfortable with a woman (16 percent) or African-American
(12
> percent) as president.
>
>
> The greatest risk of losing votes is among those who are "entirely"
> uncomfortable with the
> idea; that's 15 percent for a 72-year-old president, vs. 6 and 7
percent,
> respectively, for a
> black or female president. Slightly more seniors say they'd be entirely
> uncomfortable with a
> president that age, 20 percent, as do adults under 65, 14 percent.
>
> Interestingly, voters who are concerned with Obama's race appear to be
those
> very blue-collar
> whites that have become such a hot topic in recent weeks:
>
> While overall discomfort with an African-American president is much
> lower, it rises among
> less-educated whites - the same group that's been a challenge for Obama
in
> the Democratic
> primaries. Among whites who haven't gone through college, 17 percent say
> they'd be at least
> somewhat uncomfortable with a black president; that compares with just 4
> percent of white
> college graduates. Clinton may face a similar problem, however;
less-educated
> whites also are
> more apt to be uncomfortable with a woman president (21 percent, vs. 7
> percent of white college
> graduates).
>
>
> This poll -- like the last ABC News/Wa****ngton Post survey -- finds
no
> apparent damage to
> Obama in the controversy over his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah
Wright.
> Six in 10 Americans,
> and 73 percent of Democrats, say Obama has done "the right amount" to
> distance himself from
> Wright, rather than too little or too much.
>
>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/13/mccains-age-again-seen-as_n_101442.ht
> ml
and;
GOP Getting Crushed in Polls, Key Races
By Jim VandeHei and David Paul Kuhn
The Politico
Saturday 10 May 2008
John McCain is planning to run as a different kind of Republican.
But being any kind of Republican seems like some sort of death sentence
these days.
In case you've been too consumed by the Democratic race to notice,
Republicans are getting crushed in historic ways both at the polls and
in the polls.
At the polls, it has been a massacre. In recent weeks, Republicans
have lost a Louisiana House seat they had held for more than two decades
and an Illinois House seat they had held for more than three. Internal
polls show that next week they could lose a Mississippi House seat that
they have held for 13 years.
In the polls, they are setting records (and not the good kind). The
most recent Gallup Poll has 67 percent of voters disapproving of
President Bush; those numbers are worse than Richard Nixon's on the eve
of his resignation. A CBS News poll taken at the end of April found only
33 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the GOP - the lowest
since CBS started asking the question more than two decades ago. By
comparison, 52 percent of the public has a favorable view of the
Democratic Party.
Things are so bad that many people don't even want to call
themselves Republicans. The Pew Research Center for the People & the
Press has found the lowest percentage of self-described Republicans in
16 years of polling.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051108B.shtml
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