Obama 'more exciting than McCain'
Republican US presidential candidate John McCain lacks the excitement of his Democratic rival Barack Obama, a study showed.
Mr Obama's supporters were more fired up and expressed more loyalty to their candidate than those who supported Mr McCain, the poll showed.
And individual groups who back Mr Obama - African-Americans, Democrats and liberals - were also more enthusiastic than whites, Republicans and conservatives, who were more aligned with Mr McCain.
The study comes ahead of Mr Obama's much-hyped trip to the Middle East and Europe, including England, next week.
A total of 38% of Mr Obama's supporters said the election was exciting, compared with 9% of Mr McCain's.
And 65% of Mr Obama's backers said they were hopeful about the campaign, double Mr McCain's, and the Democrat's supporters are also three times more likely to express pride.
By 2-to-1 or more, the 71-year-old Arizona senator's backers were more likely than Mr Obama's to say the campaign made them bored, angry and helpless.
And while 16% of those who preferred Mr Obama said they may change their candidate, 24% of Mr McCain's said they might do the same.
Overall, the number of those surveyed who expressed a great deal or quite a bit of interest in the campaign rose to 60%, from 45% last November.
More than twice as many Democrats as Republicans have become more excited about the campaign since last autumn, 22% to 9%, and 47% of Republicans and 29% of Democrats expressed frustration.