Monday, September 29, 2008

Polls Speak on McCain's Dramatic Pause


I recently commented in this blog that I thought McCain's dramatic suspension of campaigning to deal with the Big Bailout would backfire on him.

Apparently, the latest polls on this subject show exactly that. The article is worth a full reading.

Most of the public didn't buy it. Obama's overall poll lead widened slightly.

The first debate was supposed to be right in McCain's wheelhouse; he was expected to mop the floor with Obama on national security and foreign policy. That obviously did not happen.

Perhaps most tellingly, today's Times-Bloomberg poll shows the following: among undecided voters who viewed the debate, 44% thought Obama was more presidential and 16% thought McCain was more presidential.

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