A Question

I think it's fair to say that neither Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton has put forth a policy on Iraq that offers a precipitous withdrawal. Ultimate withdrawal .... maybe. But I haven't heard either ever say that they would withdraw regardless of the situation in the middle east. Of course they want to keep their options open.

But John McCain is continually trying to paint both candidates as wanting to do just that, precipitously withdraw. So my question is this. Given the polls on how Americans see the war in Iraq, does McCain's distorted attack hurt or help the Democrats?