ABC News: Likely voters reject McCain effort to make Ayers an issue, 52% say Palin a mistake

[Amerigo Vespucci]

More Challenges for McCain, From Ayers to the Palin Pick
Obama Leads on Optimism and Temperment in Final Weeks

ANALYSIS by GARY LANGER

Oct. 20, 2008

http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Politics/story?id=6067150&page=1



Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., gives the thumbs up as he boards his campaign plane in Columbus, Ohio, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)

More challenges for John McCain: Likely voters overwhelmingly reject his effort to make an issue of Barack Obama's association with 1960s radical William Ayers. Fallout continues from McCain's pick of Sarah Palin for vice president, with 52 percent saying it weakens their confidence in his judgment. And on optimism, it's Obama by 2-1.

Skepticism about the Ayers issue was one of the factors cited by Colin Powell in his endorsement of Obama yesterday, and in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, likely voters broadly agree: 60 percent say Obama's relationship with Ayers is not a legitimate issue in the presidential campaign; 37 percent say it is.

Click here for PDF with charts and questions: http://abcnews.go.com/images/PollingUnit/1077a2AyersACORNandPalin.pdf

[brianna69]

1. Thanks

When is ABC going to post the head to head poll numbers for the poll? What is with teasing a poll over 3 days? This is now beyond absurd.