Today Politico had an article with some very interesting statistics in it. For example:

Only 31 percent of Americans say McCain is the candidate “better able to improve economic conditions,” according to a recent CBS/New York Times Poll, compared with 51 percent for Obama. That lead has held stable for months.

And even though McCain promises massive tax cuts (something everyone likes), it seems like more people have started to figured out that his cuts would be even more unrealistic than Obama’s (which themselves aren’t very realistic):

Obama is even seen as being better “able to deal with taxes” — traditionally a winning issue for Republicans — by a 47 percent to 36 percent margin. One month earlier, voters preferred McCain on the tax issue, 44 percent to 39 percent.

So, on what’s usually the Republican’s strongest issue, the economy and specifically taxes, Obama is dominating McCain. What about McCain’s pet issues, the War in Iraq? He has been attacking Obama quite frequently about this issue recently. Luckily for McCain, support for the War seems to be increasing; however, a slim majority of Americans still oppose the war.

Unluckily for McCain, the War in Iraq is nowhere near as important to Americans as the economy:

Today, Pew finds that concern over the economy is double the level of the war in Iraq, 44 percent to 19 percent. Over the same period, the portion of Americans most worried over gas prices rose more than eightfold, from 2 percent last November to 17 percent by summer.

And the public’s association of McCain and Bush isn’t helping either:

CBS/New York Times polling has found that about six in 10 Americans believe that should McCain win the presidency, he “would generally continue his predecessor’s economic policies.”

McCain is having some rough times, especially in the wake of Phil Gramm’s “nation of whiners” comments. Maybe it’s time that he comes out with a respectable economic plan…

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