McCain, Obama deadlocked in presidential race

From Paul Steinhauser
CNN Deputy Political Director

WASHINGTON (CNN) - A new national poll taken entirely after the end of
the Republican convention suggests the race for the White House between John
McCain and Barack Obama is dead even.

McCain and Obama are tied at 48 percent each, according to a CNN/Opinion
Research Corporation Poll out Monday afternoon.

Three percent of voters are undecided, according to the survey.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll questioned 1,022 registered
voters by telephone. The survey, conducted Friday through Sunday, has a
sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.

The poll is one of three new surveys taken mostly over the weekend.

The other two are a Gallup Tracking Poll and a Diageo/Hotline survey.
When all three are averaged together for a new CNN poll of polls, the results
have McCain up one point, 47 percent to 46 percent. That's the first time in
the CNN poll of polls that McCain has an advantage over Obama.