Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Who's Favored on Taxes and the Economy? [Greg Pollowitz]
George Stephanopoulos blogs:
In the last days of the election, John McCain has sought to hammer home his argument that that an Obama administration would raise voters' taxes.
However Barack Obama appears to be effectively making his policy pitch that he would give 95 percent of Americans a tax cut and raise taxes for families making over $250,000.
McCain's "Joe the Plumber" argument is probably giving him some headway but interestingly, Obama still maintains a ten-point lead over McCain — 51 to 41 percent — on who voters trust more to handle the issue of taxes, according to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll.
Or, maybe not. Rasmussen has a new poll out on "Taxes & the Economy" and McCain is up:
After several weeks of John McCain's campaign attacks on Barack Obama's tax plan and idea of "spreading the wealth around", the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds voters trust McCain more than Obama on taxes, 47% to 45%.
Two weeks ago, Obama had a one point-advantage on the issue of taxes and a month ago, he had a three-point edge. The last time McCain had the advantage on this issue was September 14, just before the collapse of Lehman Brothers started the meltdown on Wall Street (see trends).
10/29 02:40 PM
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