ABC Poll: 60 Percent Say Ayers Not Legitimate Campaign Issue

The quote at the bottom on my emails says that a lie oft repeated is still a lie. Luckily, when it comes to the William Ayers ("pal around with terrorists") issue, the American electorate understands.

ABC Poll: 60 Percent Say Ayers Not Legitimate Campaign Issue

via The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com on 10/19/08

More challenges for John McCain: Likely voters overwhelmingly reject his effort to make an issue of Barack Obama's association with 1960s radical William Ayers. Fallout continues from McCain's pick of Sarah Palin for vice president, with 52 percent saying it weakens their confidence in his judgment. And on optimism, it's Obama by 2-1.

Skepticism about the Ayers issue was one of the factors cited by Colin Powell in his endorsement of Obama yesterday, and in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, likely voters broadly agree: 60 percent say Obama's relationship with Ayers is not a legitimate issue in the presidential campaign; 37 percent say it is.