John McCain Trails in Crucial Smoky Mesquite Poll

Just in time for Independence Day fun, here's a new waste-of-time poll that says more Americans would enjoy barbecuing with Barack Obama than with John McCain…

While many are still deciding who should be president, by 52 percent to 45 percent they would prefer having Obama than McCain to their summer cookout, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll released Wednesday.

Men are about evenly divided between the two while women prefer Obama by 11 percentage points. Whites prefer McCain, minorities Obama. And Obama is a more popular guest with younger voters while McCain does best with the oldest.

Having Obama to a barbecue would be like a relaxed family gathering, while inviting McCain "would be more like a retirement party than something fun," said Wesley Welbourne, 38, a systems engineer from Washington, D.C.

Hahaha! McCain is old. Good choice of quote, non-partisan Internet newspaper reporter.

In a similar poll, unreleased and unconducted, 60 percent of voters said they would rather stand in a line for a soup kitchen with Ralph Nader than Bob Barr. Many of those polled believed that Nader would be better at "getting the good stuff at the bottom of the pot."