POLL: Nearly half of Americans surveyed say they are tired of hearing about Barack Obama, page 3
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reply posted on 6-8-2008 @ 07:35 PM by DocMoreau
Now a real poll would ask American's how many are tired of hearing about Paris Hilton.
I bet way more than 48%!

The poll seems flawed, unless they have been tracking the 'hearing about' factor for the entire campaign, but oh well....

Obama Fatigue - 48% Hearing Too Much About Him from the PEW website
As he has since January, this week, Barack Obama enjoyed much more visibility as far as the public was concerned than did John McCain. By a margin of 76% to 11% respondents in Pew's weekly News Interest Index survey named Obama over McCain as the candidate they have heard the most about in recent days. But the same poll also shows that the Democratic candidate's media dominance may not be working in his favor. Close to half (48%) of Pew's interviewees went on to say that they have been hearing too much about Obama lately. And by a slight, but statistically significant margin - 22% to 16% - people say that recently they have a less rather than more favorable view of the putative Democratic nominee.

Plus, graphics tend to speak better than just a raw stat pulled out of context and thrown in a yahoo article...



I don't know. Looking at the figures, my gut tells me that McCain is still getting 'media darling' treatment, but instead of fawning over him, they are doing him a favor by staying away. They are helping his candidacy by giving his campaign something to attack Obama on. By incessantly talking about Obama in the mainstream media, the media itself is forcing the issue. If they scrutinized him as much as they do Obama for his every move, it would not be as close a race as it has become. If McCain is out of the running before the Convention they loose the ratings and ad dollars if it is not a close race between now and November.

I am sure there are 'naysayers' to my gut... but look at the line graph. McCain is getting way more Media Coverage than he was in January, almost the same percentage as Obama now, but for some reason is nearly invisible to the public. To me, that says that the public is not gleaning anything from the coverage he is getting, because the media is not really giving them anything of substance to think about. But then again, maybe the media is only reporting what McCain is giving them.

DocMoreau



reply posted on 6-8-2008 @ 08:45 PM by orion2506
reply to post by BlackOps719

id have to disagree with the poll, i think in truth its well over half that are tired of hearing obama this obama that.. due to diferences in opinions mainly gun control. If he was running all by himself id abstain from voting. Most of the other issues i concern myself with neither canadate will do anything in my favor, so i guess ill vote mccain just for the gun control issue... yes some may find that a stupid thing to base my vote on but as a collector and avid outdoor enthusiast it is important to me,,,, neither will make me rich so....



reply posted on 6-8-2008 @ 10:56 PM by Gateway
reply to post by BlackOps719


Hilarious!!!

50% sick and tired of hearing about Obama, then it's probably safe to assume that the other 50% are probably sick of hearing about Mcain.



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