Post by: cosine on August 06, 2008, 07:50:25 AM
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Poll: Nearly half hearing too much about Obama
2 hours, 1 minute ago
Barack Obama may be the fresh face in this year's presidential election, but nearly half say they're already tired of hearing about him, a poll says.
With Election Day still three months away, 48 percent said they're hearing too much about the Democratic candidate, according to a poll released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. Just 26 percent said the same about his Republican rival, John McCain.
Obama, the 47-year-old Illinois senator who would become the first black president, has dominated political news coverage much of the year. According to an ongoing Pew study, Obama has appeared in more news stories this year and more people say they have heard more about him than McCain, the longtime Arizona senator who also ran for president in 2000.
Two-thirds of Republicans and about half of independents said they've heard too much about Obama, as did a third of Democrats, a significant number.
At the same time, nearly four in 10 said they've been hearing too little about McCain — about four times the number who said so about Obama. About half of Republicans, four in 10 independents and even a quarter of Democrats said they've not heard enough about the GOP candidate.
The poll was conducted from Aug. 1-4 and involved telephone interviews with 1,004 adults. It had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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Pew Research Center: http://people-press.org
2 hours, 1 minute ago
Barack Obama may be the fresh face in this year's presidential election, but nearly half say they're already tired of hearing about him, a poll says.
With Election Day still three months away, 48 percent said they're hearing too much about the Democratic candidate, according to a poll released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. Just 26 percent said the same about his Republican rival, John McCain.
Obama, the 47-year-old Illinois senator who would become the first black president, has dominated political news coverage much of the year. According to an ongoing Pew study, Obama has appeared in more news stories this year and more people say they have heard more about him than McCain, the longtime Arizona senator who also ran for president in 2000.
Two-thirds of Republicans and about half of independents said they've heard too much about Obama, as did a third of Democrats, a significant number.
At the same time, nearly four in 10 said they've been hearing too little about McCain — about four times the number who said so about Obama. About half of Republicans, four in 10 independents and even a quarter of Democrats said they've not heard enough about the GOP candidate.
The poll was conducted from Aug. 1-4 and involved telephone interviews with 1,004 adults. It had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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On the Web:
Pew Research Center: http://people-press.org
This seems like it could be a good thing, and could possibly influence how people vote. I could see that hearing too much about a candidate could lead people to not vote for him simply because they're oversaturated with information about him. I also find it interesting how many Democrats say they're hearing too much about their Chosen One. I wonder if this finding could be considered proof of real media bias?
And yes, I'm sick of hearing about Obama too... and wish there would be more media coverage of McCain and his campaign.
Post by: yesitsloaded on August 06, 2008, 08:36:26 AM
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Post by: yesitsloaded on August 06, 2008, 08:48:36 AM
(CNN) After barely a week on the job, Barack Obama's Muslim outreach adviser resigned from the campaign after an old business connection with a fundamentalist Islamic imam surfaced last week.
Mazen Asbahi, a Chicago corporate lawyer, stepped down Monday after joining the campaign on July 26 as its national coordinator for Muslim affairs. The Wall Street Journal first reported the resignation on Tuesday night.
In a letter to the campaign, Asbahi wrote, "I am stepping down from the volunteer role I recently agreed to take on with the Obama campaign as Arab American and Muslim American outreach coordinator in order to avoid distracting from Barack Obama's message of change."
Asbahi served on the board of the Delaware-based Allied Assets Advisors Fund for a brief period in 2000 with Jamal Said, the imam of a fundamentalist mosque outside Chicago, the Wall Street Journal reports. The report links Said to fundamentalist groups Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood and says he was named by the Justice Department as an unindicted co-conspirator in the racketeering trial of suspected Hamas fundraisers that ended in a mistrial.
"I served on that board for only a few weeks before resigning as soon as I became aware of public allegations against another member of the board," Asbahi wrote in his letter to the campaign.
Post by: The Annoyed Man on August 06, 2008, 09:21:02 AM
She was telling me that the local Houston independent/Progressive radio station "Pacifica" or somesuch was having a problem.
Apparently, the way the station works is that the owner/operators let the people who host the shows to do pretty much whatever they want.
So it turned out that every day of every week, every topic of every show was devoted to talking about Obama.
The owner made a new rule "You cant talk JUST about Obama, it is boring."
Post by: HankB on August 06, 2008, 10:32:55 AM
. . . the Houston progressive scene.
Isn't "progressive" newspeak for "liberal" or "leftist?"Whenever the word progressive crops up in a political conversation, I always try to interject something along the lines of "Progressive? Don't you mean liberal or left-wing? Or are you trying to hide the politics?"
It tends to derail their train of thought.
Post by: seeker_two on August 06, 2008, 12:09:59 PM
Post by: Perd Hapley on August 06, 2008, 08:46:10 PM
He's dreamy.
Post by: LAK on August 07, 2008, 04:18:01 AM
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Post by: Manedwolf on August 07, 2008, 04:19:49 AM
And I am still seeing alot more Obama bumper stickers. Alot more. Not a single McCain and one Hillary.
Well, that might be because people who might support McCain don't put stickers on their cars in general.
If his campaign was smart, they'd give out the gold-and-black logo as magnets. I've only seen two Obama stickers here. One was on a rusted out clunker, and the other was on a Pious with MA plates.
Post by: cosine on August 07, 2008, 04:51:31 AM
And I am still seeing alot more Obama bumper stickers. Alot more. Not a single McCain and one Hillary.
Around here I've seen a grand total of two bumper stickers referring to the election. One was for Obama, the other was a NObama sticker.
Post by: Regolith on August 07, 2008, 06:50:36 AM
And I am still seeing alot more Obama bumper stickers. Alot more. Not a single McCain and one Hillary.
Well, that might be because people who might support McCain don't put stickers on their cars in general.
If his campaign was smart, they'd give out the gold-and-black logo as magnets. Pretty much.
I don't do bumper stickers, never will. They're a little bit like tattoos, although they're a bit more easily removed. That, and in a college town having an anti-Obama or pro-McCain sticker is just asking to have your vehicle vandalized.
Post by: 41magsnub on August 07, 2008, 07:15:21 AM
Post by: Perd Hapley on August 07, 2008, 08:54:43 AM
Obviously, it's one sign of how popular a candidate is, or how much people actually like him. But why do campaigns spend money on that stuff?
Post by: LAK on August 08, 2008, 03:43:32 AM
Post by: Perd Hapley on August 08, 2008, 08:43:38 AM
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Post by: freakazoid on August 12, 2008, 10:19:13 PM
Post by: Manedwolf on August 13, 2008, 05:12:57 AM
Idiocracy was too optimistic.
Post by: erictank on August 13, 2008, 05:56:44 PM
And I am still seeing alot more Obama bumper stickers. Alot more. Not a single McCain and one Hillary.
Well, that might be because people who might support McCain don't put stickers on their cars in general.
If his campaign was smart, they'd give out the gold-and-black logo as magnets. I've only seen two Obama stickers here. One was on a rusted out clunker, and the other was on a Pious with MA plates.
I trust that last one was deliberate?
Plenty of Obama stickers in the NoVA area, but I've seen several McCain stickers as well (which are usually placed on the window glass, where they can be more easily removed later).
There are even still a few Ron Paul stickers riding around on the roads (vehicles were unremarkable - mid-range late-model sedans in good repair, for the two I remember at all offhand). Strangely, there is a decided lack of orange dust following those vehicles...