Only 22% see 'Celeb' ad as racist

Rasmussen Reports:

Sixty-nine percent (69%) of the nation’s voters say they’ve seen news coverage of the McCain campaign commercial that includes images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and suggests that Barack Obama is a celebrity just like them. Of those, just 22% say the ad was racist while 63% say it was not.
However, Obama’s comment that his Republican opponent will try to scare people because Obama does not look like all the other presidents on dollar bills was seen as racist by 53%. Thirty-eight percent (38%) disagree.

Now, where is David Plouffe to explain to us once more what a horrible week John McCain had? By the way, Rasmussen's daily tracking poll this morning has it Obama 47%, McCain 46% -- and, most ominously for Team Obama, McCain has a 14-point favorability margin among independents.

UPDATE: Since we're doing polling, let me point out that recent polls have shown McCain leading in Missouri, a key Midwestern swing state, as well as in Alaska and North Carolina, two red states where Team Obama had suggested their "map-changer" candidate might compete.

UPDATE II: Linked at Hot Air Headlines. Thanks, guys.

UPDATE III: Don Surber asks, "[D]id the Year of the Democrats end on Memorial Day?"

UPDATE IV: Obama 45%, McCain 44% in the Sunday Gallup Daily. Also, please check out, "Eggheads for Obama."