Poll-itics: Hearing too much about Obama, not enough about McCain

By GottaLaff

This is crazy-making stuff: Apparently, Americans are hearing too much about the guy who they don't know well enough yet, and not enough about the one who they already know:

Barack Obama may be the fresh face in this year's presidential election, but nearly half say they're already tired of hearing about him, a poll says.

With Election Day still three months away, 48 percent said they're hearing too much about the Democratic candidate, according to a poll released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. Just 26 percent said the same about his Republican rival, John McCain.

Beg pardon? How does one get familiar with one unless one is exposed to one repeatedly? Can one answer that?

Two-thirds of Republicans and about half of independents said they've heard too much about Obama, as did a third of Democrats, a significant number.

At the same time, nearly four in 10 said they've been hearing too little about McCain — about four times the number who said so about Obama. About half of Republicans, four in 10 independents and even a quarter of Democrats said they've not heard enough about the GOP candidate.

The poll was conducted from Aug. 1-4 and involved telephone interviews with 1,004 adults. It had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

Yes, I know, it's a poll, and that polls are baloney. I must stop my addiction to them. Until I do, I'll continue to be annoyed by them, despite their imprecision and lack of reliability.

I'm eagerly awaiting Clancy's "polls are stupid" routine in Comments.