The race between John McCain and Barack Obama remains largely unchanged - it's close at Obama leading McCain 46 percent to 44 percent - but McCain has made more progress than Obama in changing voter attitudes about his candidacy and where he stands on issues, according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted Sept. 9-14. The horse-race figure reflects the views of registered voters, but when it is narrowed to likely voters the candidates are tied at 46 percent each. The margin of error is 2.5 points.
While Obama still bests McCain on handling the economy in the eyes of voters by 47 percent to 38 percent, Obama's number hasn't moved since July while McCain's rose 6 points. McCain gained 8 points on foreign policy putting him ahead of Obama 51 percent to 40 percent and 10 points on the issue of reducing the influence of lobbyists and special interests, thus cutting Obama's lead to 40 percent to 36 percent. One measure where McCain did not improve much was on those who believe he will continue the unpopular policies of President Bush. Voters say he will do that by 45 percent to 44 percent.
Pew also said that as far as key battleground states are concerned, McCain now ties Obama at 45 percent compared to Obama's 7 point lead before the conventions.
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