Poll Shows Obama Deflected Recent Attacks: Rebuffs GOP effort to label him too liberal or a gamble [View All]

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Source: Washington Post

With one day to go, Democrat Barack Obama appears to have rebuffed recent GOP efforts to label him as "too liberal" or too big a gamble.

The new Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll puts Obama well out in front over Republican John McCain and finds that Obama has firmly reestablished his advantage on handling the economy, beaten back a challenge on taxes and has an edge in terms of perceptions about which candidate would better deal with an unexpected major crisis....

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Obama has also crossed some important thresholds. More than half of the survey participants said he is sufficiently experienced, and he is now widely viewed as a "safe" pick. Respondents divide about evenly on whether McCain is a safe choice for president.

Age appears to be a factor in views about whether McCain is a safe pick. Sixty-two percent of likely voters who said the candidates' ages are important called McCain a risky choice; among those who said age is not a issue, the figure was 34 percent. That is also a big change from June, when less than half of those factoring in age labeled McCain a risk....

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Nearly six in 10 rate Obama as "about right" ideologically, with few shifts on that question over the course of the campaign; far fewer see McCain as in tune with them on most issues....

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