REPUBLICAN underdog John McCain seemed surprised by the chanting crowd that turned out to see him in chilly Cincinnati.

Midway through his boisterous rally, Senator McCain stopped to say: “What a crowd. What enthusiasm.

“Is there any doubt we’re going to win this election, my friends? This is wonderful.”

With 12 days to go, almost all opinion polls show Senator McCain’s opponent, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, ahead by an average of seven points.

But one new poll broke ranks yesterday to hint at a narrowing of the race in the final stretch.

The Associated Press-GfK poll found Senator Obama leading by just one percentage point, on 44 per cent support.

Three weeks ago, the AP-GfK survey put him eight points in the lead.

With the drawcard of two popular Republican women – his running-mate, Sarah Palin, and country music star Gretchen Wilson, who sang Redneck Woman — more than 12,000 people filled an airport hangar in Ohio’s most conservative city.

It may not have been the record 100,000 people that turned out to see Senator Obama in Missouri over the weekend, but for Senator McCain it was a larger-than-usual rally.

Mrs Palin warmed the crowd up, thanking southwest Ohio for its welcome.

She said flying into Cincinnati, she had been amazed to look down and “see my face ploughed into a cornfield”.

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