WASHINGTON — Barack Obama may be the fresh face in this year’s presidential election, but nearly half the respondents in a recent poll say they’re already tired of hearing about him.
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 John McCain.
According to an ongoing Pew study, Obama has appeared in more news stories this year and more people say they have heard more about him than McCain, the Arizona senator who also ran for president in 2000.
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.
