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Poll: Equal Numbers Say Obama And McCain Have Qualities Necessary To Be President

Some new poll numbers from CNN show that John McCain is besting Barack Obama on who would best handle foreign policy (54%-43%), while Obama is ahead on who would best handle the economy (50%-44%).

That's not terribly surprising. But there's another interesting number buried in here.

The poll also finds that roughly the same percentage think that each candidate has the "personality and leadership qualities a President should have." Sixty three percent agree that Obama has these qualities, while 66% say McCain does -- within the margin of error.

This suggests that the McCain camp has lots of work to do in carrying out its primary game plan of portraying Obama as somehow inherently unfit for the office, as opposed to winning the argument on the issues, which the GOP is obviously not in a very good position to do right now.


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