ABC Poll: 60 Percent Say Ayers Not Legitimate Campaign Issue

ABC News:

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.

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Comments

[AZM]

02:19 PM on 10/20/2008

Let's hear some fair and balanced reporting, e.g., let's hear more about John McCain's pal G. Gordon Liddy.

[OldKnute]

12:24 PM on 10/20/2008

Is this what Cheney meant when he said The Neo-Cons would be back? They may have lost this time but already are planning a return? Is it over for the New World Order folks?

Somehow, this all just seems tooooo easy.

Those folks have carried this grudge from way back in the 1960s and Nixon. Nixon goes back to the Sen. Joseph McCarthy days.

McCarthy opposed Roosevelt.

I’m just not sure! Very ODD.

It all seems fishy to me. TOOO easy somehow???

>>Knute sniffs the air.

TOO EASY!

All the best

Knute Neo-LIB

[Whatashame]

12:16 PM on 10/20/2008

I am more worried about the electonic machines in Virginia that keeps switching the vote from obama to McCain. This needs to get out there and people need to take their camera into the booth to document the switching as proof. The Republican­s are at it again trying to steal another election.

I am more worried about the electonic machines in Virginia that keeps switching the vote from obama to McCain. This needs to get out there and people need to take their camera into the booth to document the switching as proof. The Republican­s are at it again trying to steal another election.

I am more worried about the electonic machines in Virginia that keeps switching the vote from obama to McCain. This needs to get out there and people need to take their camera into the booth to document the switching as proof. The Republican­s are at it again trying to steal another election.

I am more worried about the electonic machines in Virginia that keeps switching the vote from obama to McCain. This needs to get out there and people need to take their camera into the booth to document the switching as proof. The Republican­s are at it again trying to steal another election.

[mike53]

12:28 PM on 10/20/2008

Don't worry about voting machines. Acorn has swamped those with false registrati­ons.

[Soundofthunder]

02:04 PM on 10/20/2008

Read it and weep, Mikey:

http://med­iamatters.­org/items/­2008101800­04?f=h_lat­est

SOT

[haval2]

11:01 AM on 10/20/2008

the filth and scum connection­s of john and sarah were underrepor­ted...the democrats were on to more important issues...t­he ones that really count for americans. most people who read already knew the dirtier side of republican­s and their sordid connection­s.

[mirza]

10:58 AM on 10/20/2008

That's low--it really is not a legitimate issue--Oba­ma was eight when Ayers was active

[bastard guy]

09:30 AM on 10/20/2008

It's time for the MSM to expose the truth - McCain's previous ties with Liddy and the U.S. Council for World Freedom and let's not forget the Palins involvemen­t with the AIP, as well as all the other crap that is not being reported..­..

[bastard guy]

09:54 AM on 10/20/2008

And as well, none of this stuff happened when they were eight years old, especially for the Palins...

[rockyb26]

09:27 AM on 10/20/2008

Please keep contacting the media regarding their unfair reporting. Here's the list:

http://www­.fair.org/­index.php?­page=111

[suejester]

09:11 AM on 10/20/2008

How come the news isn't making a big deal out of McCain's dealings with Liddy??? Why aren't the American people talking about that?

Either the media needs to zip it regarding Ayer's or they need to make just a big of a deal out of Liddy (http://www­.huffingto­npost.com/­2008/05/05­/g-gordon-­liddy-john­-mccai_n_1­00134.html), and while they are at it they should bring up McCain's insane pastor Hagee...http://thi­nkprogress­.org/2008/­02/28/hage­e-mccain-e­ndorsement­/

I am also sick of hearing about the race card...are­n't the racists white conservati­ves voting for McCain because he's white? Talk about hippocracy and double-spe­ak..

Is it me, or is when you see John McCain ads and campaign slamming Obama the informatio­n portrait the exact things McCain had done or is doing?

I swear if I didn't visually see the informatio­n and only heard the content with the target name removed, I would think they would be Obama ads talking about McCain and his policies, and character.

[Warmglobe]

09:04 AM on 10/20/2008

Of course, nothing that criticisiz­es the messiah is a legitimate issue right?

[hortonhearsawho]

09:07 AM on 10/20/2008

Super Man ...get it right.

[breakingnews]

10:35 AM on 10/20/2008

Legitimate­...that's the key word. Not this made up BS.

But I do hope they keep it up, because the more they press this non-issue, the more the swing voters realize that McCain has no answers and no clue.

This only helps Obama.

[hortonhearsawho]

09:03 AM on 10/20/2008

Millions of socialists this morning were seen leaving their homes....f­actcheck: turned out to kids going off to school....

[pupbayer]

09:03 AM on 10/20/2008

I don't think Ayers by himself is that big of an issue. It's Ayers and Wright and Pleger and Kalidi and Rezdo the Chicago machine and, and, and...It speaks to the type of people O bama has surrounded himself with that I question. That is what the issue is.

[hortonhearsawho]

09:04 AM on 10/20/2008

Aw , how cute, bed time stories for the llittle repugs....­.

[parvo63]

09:14 AM on 10/20/2008

That's correct; he has shown bad judgement all the way.

[breakingnews]

10:37 AM on 10/20/2008

Colin Powell and Warren Buffett beg to differ :)

[feo]

09:01 AM on 10/20/2008

An issue only if McCain being in Charles Keating's hip pocket for 30 years is an issue. Keating was a terrorist of a different sort, no bombs, but he destroyed many Americans. McCain was his waterboy.

[hortonhearsawho]

08:58 AM on 10/20/2008

Do the other 40% have legitimate children..­..

[Wilburrr]

08:57 AM on 10/20/2008

That just might be the most accurate poll I've seen.

Obama 60%
McCain 37%
Others 3%

Given the money raised, crowds attended, and voters registered­, I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't turn out to be as close as that.

[vegas9999]

08:56 AM on 10/20/2008

If ABC says it we all know it must be true???