Although tonight's Democratic Convention theme is "Securing America's Future," A CNN/Opinion Research poll conducted Aug. 23-24 says that Obama had a lot of work to do to close the gap with John McCain and foreign policy and national security issues.
- McCain leads Obama 78 percent to 58 percent on the question of who can handle the responsibilities of commander-in-chief. Forty-one percent of Americans said Obama was not up to that job compared to only 21 percent who said that of McCain.
- Americans see McCain as better prepared to handle terrorism by 60 percent to 36 percent.
- McCain's edge on Iraq is smaller, no doubt because so many Americans believe going into the war was a mistake, but he leads Obama on this issue 53 percent to 44 percent.
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