By Foon Rhee
The latest national poll offers some more good news for presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain and more worrisome numbers for Democrats.
McCain is in a statistical tie with both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, according to the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released this morning. In hypothetical November match-ups, Obama draws 47 percent to McCain's 46 percent, while Clinton gets 49 percent to McCain's 47 percent. Both those edges are well within the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
The more intriguing finding is that while voters give McCain a sizable edge over both Democrats in how they believe he would handle terrorism and the war in Iraq, they don't give a similar edge to Clinton and Obama over McCain on dealing with the economy.
On terrorism, 75 percent of respondents said McCain would do a good job, compared to 58 percent who said that of Obama and 57 percent for Clinton.
On the economy, which Democrats see as their strong suit, 69 percent of voters said Clinton would do a good job, while 67 percent said that of Obama. But 65 percent said so of McCain, though he has acknowledged he is far better schooled in matters of national security than the US economy.
The poll, conducted March 14-16, did find that voters gave the Democrats an advantage in dealing with healthcare.
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