CNN POLL: 40% say McCain is attacking Obama unfairly.

[jefferson_dem]

22% say Obama is attacking McCain unfairly.

This is playing out much like the primaries when Hillary went too unfairly negative, too much and too soon. She paid a big price.

We'll watch to see how high the negatives climb for McCain now that he's unloaded the way over-the-top celebrity ad ... and Obama and the media (to a degree) are starting to call him on his "low road" bullshit.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/30/campaign.poll/index.html

[mucifer]

1. but, you have to remember dems and repubs might have a different mindset about

what kind of attacking is fair.

[jefferson_dem]

3. Oh, the repugs are loving this slimy red meat.

Indies, on the other hand, are turned off. Several repug-types have said so these past couple days. As McCain has gone more negative, he risks turning off critical "swing voters" in a big way. He's already at 40% which includes some voters in that very group.

[tishaLA]

2. Yeah but at the end when she was polling that way

She was winning primaries. So people say it's unfair and they still allow it to influence their vote.

(For the record, I have long believed Obama participated in the last 5 weeks of the primary with one hand behind his back. He had already started on his national campaign and spent significantly less time campaigning in those states than he did through April. The point about the influence of unfair negative ads remains nonetheless.)

[Arrowhead2k1]

6. Nah, I wouldn't say that she did that well in the end even though she was winning some,

She only seemed to be 'winning' because some of the last remaining contests were heavily stacked in her favour. Even with most of her victories, she was initially expected to do much better. For instance, Pennsylvania wasn't exactly the double digit blow-out people thought she was guaranteed, she actually got like 9.7% or something. She just scraped by in Indiana. North Carolina was a blow out, for Obama! West Virginia and Peurto Rico? Seriously, who gives a feck about West Virginia and Peurto Rico!? Oh but Kentucky! Yeah, yeah, it was all hers from the get go.

My point is that at the time, the media had us all on the edge of our seats because of the circumstances of many of Obama's weaker states so happening to be holding their elections at the end of the primary season. They went on and on about his 'momentum' and if he was actually losing it! But now we can look back and safely say, no he wasn't losing much of anything, he was actually gaining grounds in those states he was doomed to fail. All of the Hillary camps intense negative campaigning had failed to truly resonate and some of her key demographics were slowly but surely moving over to Obama even in the wake of Hillary's too little too late victories.

Anyways, shrill negative campaigning doesn't appear to be very effective against Obama, I'm surprised yet pleased that the McCain camp hasn't figured this out yet. :)

[thewiseguy]

12. You are absolutely right

In fact she won several crucial primaries even when 60 percent of those who were polled would say Hillary attacked Obama unfairly.

Obama needs to hit back on McCain pretty hard. His low road ad is just the first step.

[opihimoimoi]

4. The Neg ads will backfire on MaGOO.....look at the Polls. Obama increasing the Lead

More Neg ads mean more support for Obama....its clear as day

[DFLforever]

5. The mistake McCain is making is letting himself become

identified with his negative ads. He's wrecking his own image. He really wants to mix it up with Obama personally and O is not falling for it.

If he had relied on outside groups, 527's, etc., these attack ads might have fared better.

[Cha]

7. Only "40%"? What happened to the

38%? The big freakin' problem for mccain is all his negative ads are LIES..he isn't reality based.

[Arrowhead2k1]

8. I just love these two clips.

:rofl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZf05ijVFtc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60k9IZ1LRC0

This will make an ad for Obama all by itself.

[TheDonkey]

10. FLIPPITY FLOP

:puke:

[rebel with a cause]

14. And they stand by their words because

they ride the 'straight talk express.' :rofl:

[Barack_America]

9. Any recent polls on McCain's favoribility ratings?

I'd love to see those take a dive.

[Imagevision]

11. I don't want Obama to win, I want him to landslide McPuck!

[Awsi Dooger]

13. That is one of the best poll results of the entire cycle!

Doesn't everyone see what that is? It has nothing to do with attacking unfairly. I've looked at that poll question for more than a damn decade.

It's a likability ratio. That's all it is. If you like someone you never think anything they do is unfair. That 22% is one of the lowest numbers I've ever seen.

No way Obama can remain that low but McCain figures to rise also. I'm telling you, if we retain that type of lead there's no way Obama can lose. Gore and Kerry always trailed Bush badly in the same question, even when it made zero sense. The public simply didn't like them.

This is the sleeper poll and thread of the entire cycle. We'll allow hundreds of replies to threads that are comparatively meaningless.