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Poll: McCain Seen As Running Negative Campaign
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... By a nearly 6-1 margin, voters say McCain is running a negative campaign against Obama as opposed to the other way around. ...

Poll: Voters See McCain As The Negative Campaigner By Six To One
TPM Election Central — ... Here's some good polling news for Obama. It appears voters are accurately perceiving John McCain as far and away the more negative campaigner in the race... ...

WSJ/NBC Poll: McCain is Negative But It's Working
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — By a nearly six-to-one margin, voters say Sen. John McCain is running a negative campaign against Sen. Barack Obama, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. ...

New NBC/WSJ, CBS/NYT Polls
The Atlantic Politics Channel — ... John McCain is running a negative campaign. That's the conclusion of ... wait. Just 29% of voters? Probably all Democrats. But a record for recent history. ...

McNasty
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Voters are noticing.

Saying Anything to Win
Hoffmania! — ... America says McCain's running a negative campaign. It's one thing to run one. It's another thing to be called on it by the voters. ...

Everyone wants to be the underdog
QandO — ... thing. It makes you disciplined, tough, and work harder and work smarter, and that attitude has helped the Obama campaign be successful so far, and I think it will help him between now and November.Clue to Kaine - he’s not the underdog. No Democrat running for the presidency in this election is an underdog. And if they really are, then it because they aren’t running a very good campaign and their message isn’t resonating. And here’s an interesting side note given all we hear about the perils of "negative ...

Going local, going negative
Political Animal — When it comes to relentlessly negative campaigning, John McCain is setting a very high bar (or a very low bar, I suppose, depending on one’s perspective). We’ve seen attacks from the McCain gang in July that one might ordinarily expect from a 527 group in October. The low-road campaign has been ugly, dishonest, and shameful. And the public has noticed. By a nearly six-to-one margin, voters say Republican presidential candidate John McCain is running a negative campaign against his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, according to the latest ...

So Much For That ‘Respectful Campaign’ From Ol’ McNasty
Firedoglake — ... So the latest WSJ/NBC poll (the same one showing Barack Obama's lead slipping away) also shows that Americans think John McCain is running a negative campaign: ...

So much for that 'respectful campaign'
Orcinus — ... So the latest WSJ/NBC poll (the same one showing Barack Obama's lead slipping away) also shows that Americans think John McCain is running a negative campaign: ...

Remainders: Duking it out
Ben Smith's Blog — ... John Edwards and a Duke graduate. Zorn says Obama and his critics both misstate some of the facts of the confusing Illinois abortion debate, and explains at length. Whoever made this is happy today. Geraghty wonders why the University of Illinois is staying so cagey on the Ayers files. The Bloomberg-Paul ticket won't happen in Virginia, says an election law guy. The man behinds it explains why it happened. Voters -- according to the WSJ/NBC poll -- think McCain is running a negative campaign. ...