John McCain can be a “snooze” at times, but people more excited for Obama? Well, maybe… for now. But if Obama keeps lurching towards the right (think FISA / telecom immunity. think SCOTUS overturning Washington gun ban), the only cheers he’ll be hearing will be coming from fringe republicans who think McCain isn’t far right enough.

Poll: McCain’s backers less fired up than Obama’s

While overall interest in the presidential campaign has swelled since last fall, backers of Barack Obama are more fired up and express more loyalty to their candidate than McCain’s do, a poll by The Associated Press and Yahoo News showed Friday. In addition, individual groups backing Obama — African-Americans, Democrats and liberals — are more enthusiastic than whites, Republicans and conservatives, who are more aligned with McCain, the GOP senator from Arizona. [...]

More than twice as many Democrats than Republicans have gotten more excited about the campaign since the fall, 22 percent to 9 percent. Forty-seven percent of Republicans and 29 percent of Democrats express frustration.