Now it's John McCain's turn. After Barack Obama got his post-convention bounce, opening up leads of 7 points or more, the Republican convention has helped McCain close the gap again. A CBS News poll conducted Sept. 1-3, before McCain's acceptance speech, has him tied with Obama at 42 percent with 12 percent undecided. The margin of error is 3 points. CBS's poll after the Democratic convention put Obama up by 8 points.
The opening days of the Republican fest made some dent in the "enthusiasm" gap with the number of McCain supporters saying they were enthusiastic rising from 25 percent to 35 percent. Fifty-five percent of Obama supporters described themselves as enthusiastic but that was down from 67 percent in the last poll.
Some other notes:
- Independents are divided.
- Sixty-nine percent of former supporters of Hillary Clinton say they are backing Obama, up from 58 percent.
- Sixty-six percent of white evangelicals are backing McCain, up from 57 percent.
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