Romney has his first lead in the TPM poll tracker at +2.7

[budkin]

I wouldn't worry too much, not all the polls have rebounded yet as Gallup has with Romney's lies and the jobs numbers.

[Cattledog]

1. The media will ride this like a White Horse!

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

2. The job numbers haven't taken affect yet.

[gabeana]

3. Thank god for the new Job numbers

who knows what it would be like on DU

[Drunken Irishman]

4. My guess is that it increases...

I bet most national polls that are released will show Romney leading.

[regnaD kciN]

5. That doesn't make any sense...

As far as I know, the current poll numbers are

Gallup O+5
Ipsos O+3
Rasmussen tied
ARG O+4.4
Pew R+4

For the life of me, I can't see how they crunch those numbers and come up with R+2.7.

[oswaldactedalone]

6. Pew is an incredibly reliable poll

I'd put a lot of credence in those numbers. Worrisome to say the least. The jobs numbers aren't going to move the poll much. The greatest majority of Americans have no idea about that type of stuff, political junky stuff completely.

Biden and the Prez have to do an excellent job in the upcoming debates. One more stinker and it's RobMe's to lose.

[budkin]

7. Yes but it obviously hasn't picked up on the huge Sunday polling that Obama had

Sounds like it was taken in the first couple days after the debate

[GumboYaYa]

8. I hope this gets Obama to pull his head out of his ass and get ready for the next debate!

I am still incredibly upset at Obama and his campaign for the pitiful performance in he debate.

[budkin]

9. I just don't understand how he could have been so AWFUL

makes no sense

[Dawson Leery]

10. At least he should have been assertive.

[VirginiaTarheel]

12. What is he doing to prevent another debate debacle?

Repeating the same debate prep will lead to same debacle. Are there new debate coaches helping him? How much more time is he putting into prep now?

[kaiden]

11. Remember that a presidential election is really 50 state elections.

I wouldn't be too alarmed about national polling because it's all about 50 individual presidential elections and Obama is doing well in states that have enough electoral votes to win a second term.