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The race across the combined battlegrounds is as tight as can be, tied 42 percentto 42 percent.

Clinton was up one point last week, and was up two points back on Labor Day weekend. Voters in these states are still looking for change, while the partisan divide remains particularly deep.

Fifty-five percentof battleground voters want to see big changes in the nations politics and economy in the next few years. Forty-threepercentwant some changes and only 2 percentthink things are fine and not in need of much change. Trump leads by a wide margin on being trusted to change Washington: Forty-seven percenttrust Trump to do it, 20 percenttrust that Clinton can do it. Nine percentof independents trust Clinton can change Washington. Only 47 percentof Democrats trust Clinton to change Washington. A similar 41 percentof Democrats trust neither candidate to do it.

And to Donald Trumps voters, Trump represents that larger chance for change. By a roughly five to one margin, Trumps voters say their support is more about a chance to change politics as usual (49 percent) than it is just about Trump himself, as a person, just 9 percent. And 42 percent say it is both, so the change component is present for almost all of Trumps voters, in some part.

Clinton does lead 47 percentto 39 percent on being trusted to handle the job well day-to-day, and by 43 percentto 34 percenton being trusted to act in a way that America can be proud of. Twenty-three percentthink neither would.

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One reason this race remains tight and most have made up their minds: partisans have very negative outlooks on what might happen if the other side wins. Eighty-six percentof Democrats say the country might be damaged beyond repair if Trump wins, and 83 percentof Republicans think the country might be damaged beyond repair if Clinton wins.

Underlying part of the call for change are the pervasive, negative views of the economy. While reports this week suggest the economy by many traditional measures was doing better, many voters dont say it is. Fifty-fivepercentsay its in bad shape. The reason, on the whole, is that many voters dont feel the gains are going to them, specifically, nor that opportunity is available for all.

Sixty percentoutright call the economy unfairly rigged in that only certain people get advantages that others dont. Only one third think it works fairly to reward hard work. In response to reports that things are better, 42 percentsay maybe for some people, but not for people like me. And as many previous studies have shown, these kinds of evaluations arent always economic, theyre often political --based on who controls the White House, in that Democrats are more likely to say things are good, while Republicans say theyre bad. So the president gets the largest share of blame for the economy among those who say things are bad (67 percentsay he himself is a big reason the economy is bad) and he also gets the most credit for the economy (48 percent, the top answer on the list) among those who think things are good. This is over other factors such as availability of jobs, globalization, and technological changes. Asked who they thinkhasgained since the last recession, voters say banks (64 percentsay so) and large businesses. Who has lost? Blue-collar workers, and a majority 52 percent- say people like me.

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With regard to the discussion of Hillary Clintons pneumonia last week a majority calls it a matter of disclosure more so than health (51 percent) while also feeling that it did raise larger issues about Clintons health Republicans in particular say this - but voters overall feel nonetheless it was still blown out of proportion.

Following the controversy over Hillary Clintons comment about Donald Trumps supporters (which Democrats say was telling it like it is but which Republicans and independents saw as an insult), the survey looked at how each candidatesvoters feel about the other side. We asked Clinton voters why they think Trumps voters are with Trump, and vice versa.Sixty-eight percentof Clintons voters think Trumps voters are racially insensitive. Seventy-six percentof Clintons voters feel others are voting for Trump because Trump is fooling them. Seventy-three percentof Trump voters feel Clintons voters are looking for special privileges. And 83 percentof Trumps voters say Clinton is fooling her voters. Taken together, theviews voters hold of those who disagree with them politically provideyet another sign of the continuing political divide.

This CBS News 2016 Battleground Tracker is a panel study based on 4202 interviews conducted on the internet of registered voters in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin. The margin of error is 1.9%.

CBS News 2016 Battleground Tracker, Methods: Battlegrounds, September 18, 2016

CBS News 2016 Battleground Tracker: Battlegrounds, September 18, 2016

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