Voters Not Sold on Sending John McCain Back to Washington

PHOENIX, Ariz. — John McCain has spent 28 years in Washington and has spent $21 million on his reelection campaign so far – and yet he still hasn’t convinced Arizona voters that he deserves a fifth term in the U.S. Senate, according to a poll released Friday.

A new Rasmussen poll shows McCain standing at just 53 percent. Despite all the money he spent on his primary, he’s dropped four points since May and hasn’t budged since earlier this month.

“Arizona voters know John McCain has failed Arizona,” said Patrick Mellody, campaign manager for Rodney Glassman, McCain’s challenger in the general election. “Arizonans want a senator who will work for them to get Arizona moving again, put Arizonans back to work and improve the state’s public schools. No amount of money can convince voters that John McCain has served the state.”

McCain has flip-flopped on issue after issue, and even recently said he never considered himself a maverick — contradicting an image he spent decades crafting.

“Voters are fed up with John McCain and don’t know who he is anymore, or what he really stands for,” Mellody said.

Glassman has built a campaign based on listening to voters’ concerns and promising to bring people together to get things done.

“Arizona can prosper in the 21st century when we find 21st century solutions to our problems,” Glassman said. “That means bringing people together to focus on clean jobs, better schools and not going back to the old ways that have failed us.”

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