Poll: Rising number of voters find campaign too negative, dull

[Monique Faulkner]

Poll: Rising number of voters find campaign too negative, dull
Posted: 03:10 PM ET
 
For many voters, it feels like the never-ending campaign.
(CNN) — Longtime political observers are running out of adjectives to describe this year’s presidential race: Record-breaking. Historic. Epic.

But with the campaign firmly settled into a seemingly-endless three-way slugfest, it may come as little surprise that voters in a new Pew Research Center survey had a few other words in mind.

Roughly two-thirds of those polled say it’s been “too long.” Half of them say it’s become “too negative.” And the candidates aren’t the only ones fighting campaign fatigue: more than a third now say the closest race in a generation is just “too dull."

Blame the post-Super Tuesday grind. Two months ago, just 28 percent of voters in the same survey said the race was too negative, and one in four said it was too dull. In the February poll, 57 percent told pollsters that the race was too long – oddly enough, fewer than the 66 percent who had given the same response four months earlier in the cycle.

The still-unresolved contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton seems to be making for a shell-shocked party: two months ago, roughly one in five Democrats thought the campaign was too negative. Now that number has risen to 50 percent.

[Vanguard of Truth]

It is getting dull!  And, to think Hillary would prefer to drag it out to the convention. Another five months of negative campaigning while the trollish figure of John McCain sits back and cackles gleefully.

On with the general election already!  After all the primaries are done, the person in the lead in popular vote and delegates should be the nominee, there is no other logical solution:  fair is fair!