Republican Enthusiasm, Doubts About Obama Grow

A new CBS News poll out tonight jibes with findings from Gallup, CNN, Gallup's tracking poll, Zogby and the Hotline tracking poll. McCain and Obama. McCain's doing better; the race is basically dead even.

McCain's standing among evangelicals has doubled from 24% to 48%, and Clinton supporters are eleven points more likely to support Barack Obama.  The enthusiasm gap between Democrats and Republicans still exists, but it has narrowed considerably.

Is the election still about change? A whopping 65% of registered voters see the Obama-Biden ticket as the force of change, compared to just 47% who associate the word with McCain-Palin.

Conservatives see McCain as one of their own: 72% of voters think that John McCain will either adhere to the conservative policy level associated with President Bush or go to the right of it, which is up a bit from the previous poll.

Obama still not prepared: 42% say he's prepared to be president, versus 76% for McCain. And 55% think it very likely that McCain would be an "effective" commander in chief, up nine points from the previous poll.

Obama still leads on most domestic issues, still leads on the "who shares your values" question, and still understands voters' needs and problems better, these voters say.

Working the ref works: more than half of men and women say the media has treated Gov. Palin too harshly.