Marathon Pundit: Rasmussen poll: More Americans want McCain to anwser the phone at 3am

Despite all the paid-airtime back-and-forth between Barack Obama and John McCain over who is the most qualified candidate to answer the the White House telephone at 3:00am during a time of crisis, pollster Scott Rasmussen is reporting that more Americans want the current Arizona senator to be the person to be picking up that phone after January 20, 2009.

Before Hillary Clinton was declared the winner in Texas, most American voters had read, seen, or heard about her 3:00 a.m. telephone commercial. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 43% had seen at least part of the commercial which was played incessantly on news networks and other outlets for days. Another 16% had heard something about it and the overwhelming majority (81%) correctly identified Hillary Clinton as the candidate whose campaign ran the commercial.

The commercial was credited as one factor enabling Clinton to turn her campaign around in Texas last week. But, 42% of all voters said the person they’d most want to answer the phone was John McCain. Among all voters, 25% picked Clinton and another 25% named Obama as the person they’d want in the White House when a foreign policy crisis call arrived.