Florida Poll Released by Research 2000 for Sun Sentinel: Barack Obama 49%, John McCain 45%

Here are the latest results from the Florida poll by Research 2000 for Sun Sentinel published on USAElectionPolls.com:

There were 600 voters polled on 10/13-15.

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Twenty-one percent of respondents said GOP attacks of Democrat Barack Obama's relationship to Ayers, a Vietnam activist linked to a group that bombed buildings decades ago, made them less likely to vote for McCain. Another 67 percent said they were unaffected.

Five percent of respondents said they were less likely to vote for Obama because of the Democrats' attacks on McCain's link to Keating, a prominent figure in the savings-and-loan scandal that cost thousands of people their life savings in the 1980s. Another 89 percent said they were unaffected.

Jennie Walker, 56, an Arlington housewife, said she wishes both campaigns would drop the negativity.

"I'm embarrassed by the fact that they even use it. I know so much of it is not true, so I don't give it any weight," Walker said.

With the economy tanking and major foreign policy decisions afoot in Iraq and Pakistan, Walker represents the modern-day voter.

"There are some elections where spin matters, but I don't think this is one of them," said Darrell M. West, a Brookings Institution analyst and author of the election advertising guide Air Wars. "People are much more worried about their 401(k) than they are about Bill Ayers."

It's typical for voters to say they're unaffected, but a negative campaign ad can serve as a Pandora's box.

"If it gets people's attention, it works," said Matthew Corrigan, political science chair at the University of North Florida.

Source: National Polls, Electoral College Results