New poll shows McCain gaining on Obama

WASHINGTON - While Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was in Iraq, the price of gasoline remained high.

And that may have hurt him in a new poll of four states that could be decisive in the election.

The poll released Thursday shows more voters supporting presumptive Republican candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in the 2008 presidential election than in a previous poll by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute in conjunction with washingtonpost.com and the Wall Street Journal.