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Obama Fatigue - 48% Hearing Too Much About Him
Pew ^ | August 6, 2008 | Pew

Posted on 08/06/2008 7:39:14 AM PDT by GOPGuide

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.

In contrast, if anything, Pew's respondents said they want to hear more, not less about the Republican candidate. Just 26% in the poll said they had heard too much about McCain, while a larger number (38%) reported that they had heard too little about the putative Republican candidate. However, as for Obama, a slight plurality reports that recently they have come to have a less favorable view of McCain rather than a more favorable view of him - (23% to 18%).

Not surprisingly, a very large number of Republicans say they have heard too much about Obama lately. But 51% of independents shared this opinion, and as many as a third of Democrats thought so too.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008polls; barackobama; electionpresident; elections; enoughalready; nobama08; obama; obamessiah; osama
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To: Issaquahking
Just got my copy yesterday! Started reading it last night—interesting stuff.
Obambi’s Dad had 8 kids with 4 different women and had multiple car accidents as a result of drunk driving, the last one did him in.
I look forward to reading the rest of this.
21 posted on 08/06/2008 7:55:04 AM PDT by scott says
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To: musicman

But isn’t he the Messiah, the one we heard about from the Germans? Did he not do great feats and miracles? But, nay, he was not present and, when present, voted “Present”. No bill came forth from his rhetoric. While refuting the fallacies of the surge, he refused comfort to the afflicted. Indeed, he flipped the flop of an energy plan. And so they crucified him and nailed him to the truth of his ways.


22 posted on 08/06/2008 7:56:45 AM PDT by DBCJR (What would you expect?)
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To: GOPGuide

My exact thots. This started in January! It is not even fall yet. The thrill is gone and he keeps saying stupid things. It works well for the conservatives, and we have to do so little.


23 posted on 08/06/2008 7:57:33 AM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: GOPGuide; All

Please sign Congressman Eric Cantor’s petition to demand the Democrats come back to the House

http://www.callbackcongress.com/


24 posted on 08/06/2008 7:58:02 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: RetiredArmy

25 posted on 08/06/2008 7:58:09 AM PDT by A. Morgan (VOTE FOR A LIBERAL N' WE'LL BE UP TO OUR NECKS IN ILLEGALS and OUTA' GAS!)
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To: DBCJR
Book of Obama
26 posted on 08/06/2008 8:00:36 AM PDT by musicman
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To: RetiredArmy; freekitty; Free ThinkerNY; No Surrender No Retreat

How about we’ve heard the truth about Socialist Osama Hussein Obama and his shrew and it makes us want to scream. How about the fact that the Muslim-loving Messiah is anti-American, anti-military, anti-Semitic and pro-terrorist! The Muslim Messiah spells disaster for the American people and threatens my children and grandchildren’s futures. And, how about Osama Hussein Obama being a national disgrace along with his cohorts Pelosi, Boxer, Reid, Feinstein, Schumer, Kerry, Murtha, Kennedy, et al??? Perhaps that’s why the American people are sick of this empty-headed destructive Liberal.


27 posted on 08/06/2008 8:02:12 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: GOPGuide

Paradox: We hear way too much about him, but we know far too little about him.


28 posted on 08/06/2008 8:04:17 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: GOPGuide

O-no


29 posted on 08/06/2008 8:05:12 AM PDT by LikeLight (http://www.believersguidetolegalissues.com)
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To: henkster
It’s a vicious (but wonderfully so) cycle in the making. The more he slips in the polls, the more frenzied his msm bootlickers become in heaping praise and laud on their god, the more exposure Obama gets, the more gaffes he commits, the more the public tires of his gaffes and the more they see he is an empty suit, the more he slips in the polls....repeat cycle....

I wouldn't get my hopes up. The Dems have their convention coming up. Obama will get a significant bump, and the media will play it up like the Second Coming (pun intended). Then the GOP convention should give McCain a bump, and I imagine we'll be right back to a very tight race.

30 posted on 08/06/2008 8:06:21 AM PDT by impeachedrapist
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To: GOPGuide
I heard he will be taking a vacation in Hawaii for a week.

Meeting up with Jessica on Maui for a tanning session?

I wonder if he will have a photo op with granny?

Find his Birth Certificate?

31 posted on 08/06/2008 8:08:44 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“I’m thinking that he peaked in June. Maybe May.”

Did Hillary bring him to a climax? “Wahy, tha-at’s mar thun she done fer mae!” says Govenah Bill.

You might be right about “buyer’s remorse” but I can’t see Hillary making a “play at the convention”. Her eyes are on 2012. McCain is a Republican Jimmy Carter, a one term president. Making a play at the convention is a high risk move. She alienates a huge Democratic base and it knocks her out of 2012. No, she stays where she is, out of sight.

If Obama implodes, she is waiting in the wings, but he is far from that yet. I don’t think it will happen before the convention. Obama Nation is perfectly timed. It will be after the convention before that stuff is picked up by MSM - if not after the election. He is gliding into the candidacy.

McCain will win unless he pulls a Bush, Sr. Conservatives need to re-group and form a platform, resume their place as the “ideas” coalition. And rally for the Congressional elections in 2010. Then we need to figure out what to do with McCain then. Maybe, he will be more understanding by that point.


32 posted on 08/06/2008 8:09:49 AM PDT by DBCJR (What would you expect?)
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To: mmichaels1970

I saw a bit of the Colbert Report yesterday (Comedy Central’s news wing). They were doing their best to resurrect Obama’s tire gauge remark by “proving” it to be brilliant, citing AAA and government officials to show it aids with gas mileage.

It was pretty heavyhanded and altogether too transparent (they even did the Good Picture of Obama/Bad Picture of McCain trick). The Messiah is in trouble of becoming a buffoon, something McCain’s campaign is helping hasten.

McCain can afford to laugh at himself because he has the experience and career to balance it out. All Obama has is his image, and once that’s tarnished, it’s over for him.


33 posted on 08/06/2008 8:11:42 AM PDT by Unlikely Hero ("Time is a wonderful teacher; unfortunately, it kills all its pupils." --Berlioz)
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To: comebacknewt
"The kids will be the ones that abandon him first. Their attention span is far too short for them to stay with him long enough to deliver the votes he is expecting."

It's like a new song on the radio. #1 one week, bottom of the list the next after being played to death. Then a month or so later no one can stand it, and it becomes a joke, like the village people and YMCA

34 posted on 08/06/2008 8:15:12 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: GOPGuide
The case of the Noncredible Shrinking candidate.

I'm melting. I'm melting.

35 posted on 08/06/2008 8:15:23 AM PDT by McGruff (In loving memory of a lost FRiend YaYa123.)
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To: GOPGuide
Within the first eight images currently at yahoo news pics ...


36 posted on 08/06/2008 8:16:49 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

His ears could be solar powered...........


37 posted on 08/06/2008 8:19:08 AM PDT by sweetiepiezer (Osama and Obama both have friends that have bombed the Pentagon.)
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To: mmichaels1970
"I think the tire gauge and the trip to Berlin have marked the beginning of the downward trend. If people keep laughing at him over the tire gauge, hopefully he'll implode."

The tire guage thing is a gift that just keeps on giving.

People should consider suing him for the bad advice, if they over inflated their car tires and then got into a car accident because their car's handling changed from being a good handling car to hazzardous one.

Not to mention all the premature tire wear causing land fills to fill up even faster with used tires. Not very "enviromentaly responsible advice.

Then there is the extra wear and tear on their vehicles suspension components, forcing more cars to a premature death.

I can hardly wait for more Obama tips on how to end our dependence on ME oil without drilling/using our own resources.

38 posted on 08/06/2008 8:26:11 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: ClearCase_guy
"And I also think that buyer's remorse is setting in and that if Hillary makes a play at the convention, she might actually get some traction."

As much as I've enjoyed not seeing her face on tv, and hearing that fingernails on a blackboard voice, that would still be flippin sweet!

39 posted on 08/06/2008 8:26:49 AM PDT by libs_kma (NOBAMA. Keep the change)
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To: GOPGuide

Many of us could see this coming. I said it before and I will say it again, Democrats and their Hollywood and MSM buddies always make the same mistake every time. They oversaturate people with their candidates.

Never fazes them, they always try to create a blockbuster motion picture out of each blockhead lib they offer up. Can you all remember that ridiculous entry of Jon Cary into the convention in 2004? “Swiftboat hero” coming across the water into the convention. LMBO! Now they are going to stage the Obamarama in Denver in a football stadium so that all can slobber over the anointed one.

I don’t know anyone who hasn’t said “I am sick of hearing Obama’s name”. Could be why he is going on vacation next week. To Hawaii.


40 posted on 08/06/2008 8:28:29 AM PDT by dforest (I had almost forgotten that McCain is the nominee. Too bad I was reminded.)
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