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Obama narrowly leads McCain in Washington Post/ABC poll

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Mon Sep 8, 2008 6:18pm EDT

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama narrowly leads Republican rival John McCain by 47 percent to 46 percent among registered voters in a Washington Post/ABC News poll released on Monday.

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The poll, taken Friday through Sunday, showed new gains for McCain after the Republican convention ended on Thursday. The last Washington Post/ABC poll, taken in August before the Democratic convention, gave Obama a 6-point edge among registered voters.

The poll of 1,133 adults, including interviews with 961 registered voters, had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.

(Writing by John Whitesides; Editing by Howard Goller)
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