Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/polls-show-tight-democratic-race-waning-gop-support Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript New polls reveal a tightening race between Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton tied while public support for GOP showed a sharp drop. Pollsters and reporters from the Pew Research Center and the Wall Street Journal examine the numbers. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JUDY WOODRUFF: Next, the presidential candidates sticking to the issues today. Kwame Holman reports. ANNOUNCER: Please welcome Senator John McCain. KWAME HOLMAN: Republican John McCain held a town hall meeting in Cleveland, this morning, another chance for him to tout his plan to give families tax credits to help pay for health insurance. McCain also explained the need to streamline patient medical records through better use of computers.SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), Arizona: One of the biggest problems we have in health care — and we don't like to talk about it a lot — is medical error, medical error, where they can't — which I'm sure that our nurse friends here would certainly agree. The illegible writing of many physicians makes it an incredible task to interpret.But the point is that they don't have to look at that anymore; they go online and they know exactly what's needed for that patient. KWAME HOLMAN: McCain took questions on his health care plan and other pocketbook issues, such as the rising cost of gasoline. He used the opportunity to, once again, pitch his proposal for a summer-long federal gas tax holiday. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN: In case you haven't heard, I called for and asked for a little relief for this summer between Memorial Day and Labor Day from people having to pay 18-cents-a-gallon tax for gasoline and 24-cents-a-gallon tax for diesel fuel, just to give them a little break for the summer. You'd have thought that it was the end of Western civilization as we know it.And wouldn't it be nice? Maybe at the end of this summer, parents would have a little more money to buy the school supplies for their kids that are going back to school. Maybe they could have a little nicer — maybe a night out and have a meal.I mean, when we have families sitting around the kitchen table who have just lost their jobs and don't know how they're going to keep their home, why don't we give them a little break?