Battleground Poll-Obama (D) 49% -Romney ($) 48% -ONE POINT CHANGE*

[DemocratSinceBirth]

http://images.politico.com/global/2012/10/politico_gwbgp_trackingoct8_questionnaire.html


When you factor in the negative fallout from the debate a one point change is encouraging. A bit less encouraging is the fact that major parts of the base such as Latinos and young people need to be energized.

All things considered it could be a lot worse.

[WI_DEM]

1. appears most of poll conducted before the debate

Key findings: "The head-to-head numbers have held remarkably steady through the past three weeks, but there's been a notable shift of intensity from the Democrats to the Republicans since the party conventions over a month ago... Among those extremely likely to vote, Romney actually leads Obama 52% to 46%. That's up from a 2-point lead last week."

Most of the survey's calls were made before Romney's strong performance at the first presidential debate in Denver.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/10/08/obama_leads_despite_growing_enthusiasm_problem.html

bottom line is if Obama loses the campaign can only blame themselves for how they decided to approach the most important encounter of the campaign. They can't afford to do that again.

[TroyD]

2. 'how they decided to approach the most important encounter of the campaign'

I don't understand why Obama, Axelrod and company were so off their game. They've run a brilliant campaign so far and had a huge lead.

Yet as some said, it looked like Obama was playing not to lose, rather than to win. And by not taking the fight to Romney, he lost ground. Unfortunately this was a hugely-watched event - Neilsen numbers show something like 70 million.

Anyway, on the bright side, I think they know not to take it for granted next time and are going to do better.