Today's Gallup has Obama up 5. So skyfallers and handwringers, just CHILL.

[RBInMaine]

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. Put 'em on Ignore until after the election. I have, and I feel much better.

[oswaldactedalone]

2. Won't hold when the three days of Thursday, Friday

and Saturday are worked in. Still time for Obama to regain his footing. Let's hope he does quickly.

[regnaD kciN]

3. ???

Those days already are "worked in" -- the poll runs through 10/7.

[oswaldactedalone]

9. Sorry meant to say that those three days

will be worked in, and three better days from before the debate will fall off.

[LisaL]

11. And posters are telling you the days after the debate were already included into these numbers.

Romney had a bump after the debate. But it didn't last.

[Indpndnt]

27. Ha! Well, those days in the poll include Willard's victory and the days immed. after.

Sorry, but Willard's microscopic 'bounce' has deflated. Sucks to be him.

[RBInMaine]

5. But those rolling polls INCLUDE Mitt's good days but ALSO not the effect of the good economic news.

The one-day snapshot shows no longterm bounce for the MittTwit.

[LisaL]

7. These numbers are already included.

""Romney definitely improved in Friday and Saturday polling among registered voters, but Obama did better Saturday and Sunday nights," says Jeffrey Jones of Gallup."

http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/342209/28/Gallup-Poll-Obama-leads-Romney-

[Drunken Irishman]

8. This poll already has those days well entrenched in its daily sample...

Their sample consists of: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The debate is almost exactly in the middle of the sample now.

Since Obama saw a rise in support from yesterday's numbers, you can wager that he had better polling Sunday than he had on the Sunday before ... since had he done worse, his numbers would've fallen when that daily sample was dropped.

[book_worm]

4. Pew is a pretty respectable firm, too. However, we don't know how much Romney was winning by

in their sampling on Thur and Fri and how Sat & Sun looked. If like Gallup it was an awful Thur & Fri and a better Sat & Sun for Obama then the poll would be pretty much what the trackers are showing. Even Ras is showing Obama gaining.

[RBInMaine]

6. Gallup and Ras both have Obama UP. Nate Silver has Obama WAY WAY UP. No big bounce for MittTwit.

[mvd]

14. All indications are that it was no more than..

a temporary bounce. Pew may be respected, but they can goof, too. And I think they did if even Ras is better for the President. Sounds like an outlier with particularly good Romney days after the debate.

[Mutiny In Heaven]

10. The problem lies with the perception

It encourages some, depresses others and, as a species which likes to follow the pack, influences.

The more coverage given to polls showing Romney in the lead, the more likely it is that he will indeed be crowned on November 6th.

[RBInMaine]

12. And it is also all over the media that Obama is UP 5 in Gallup.

[BlueMTexpat]

13. What on earth have you been smoking? eom

[progressoid]

15. You'd probably get a more positive response if you didn't call people

skyfallers and handwringers. It's kind of insulting.

[RBInMaine]

25. It is what it is. It is silly hysteria when people freak over one debate and one poll.

[progressoid]

30. Yeah.

Now that I think about it, I voiced similar opinions a few months ago about polls. Probably why some people have me on ignore.

[TroyD]

16. Let's not tell people to chill

There is a lot to be nervous about right now until we find out what is going on.

The "don't worry, be happy" attitude is what got us overconfident going into the debate last week, and look what happened.

Now what I would like to know is which Gallup Tracking Poll is the most recent. Is Obama really up by 5? That's what I thought earlier this afternoon, but RCP won't include it in its average.

It claims that the 47-47 poll is the most recent one.

What is going on?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html

[LisaL]

17. To be fair, we weren't the ones debating.

[RBInMaine]

24. Do liberals take a nervous pill? Is it some crazy virus? Yes, CHILL THE HELL OUT. MANY polls show

little to no holding bounce over that ONE debate. Jesus, buck the hell up. If debates mattered so much, Obama would never have been elected on 08 and Kerry would have won in '04. Yes, keep campaigning hard, but stop all this skyfalling hysteria. It is NONSENSE.

[dorksied]

18. Obama being behind a bit in the polls could be a good thing.

I can't think of a better way to fire up the base, and motivate our President to become more aggressive. Fear can be a powerful tool, and I fear a Romney presidency more than I fear prostate cancer.

[Drunken Irishman]

26. Nothing dispirits a base faster than losing...

You look at DU and you see it already ... people aren't fired up, they're dispirited and already throwing in the towel.

[WinkyDink]

19. Those aren't really nice names to call the President and his Team. ;-)

[horsedoc]

20. Donate if you can

I gave money after the debate knowing President Obama needs every cent he can muster against Romney Inc. It is so sad that our political system is dependent on money! Yet I want to keep watching all the Obama ads on TV down here in Florida, so help him out.

[KauaiK]

21. PEW has Romney up 4 .....

[patrice]

28. Crappy Pew sampling appx. 1/3 from the South & appx. 1/2 CONSERVATIVE. links:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1496747

[Mkap]

22. Sorry

As much as i want to say those poll numbers give hope they don't, those poll numbers were taking 3 days before the debate and 3 days after whereas PEW was on a 4 day roll from the post-debate to today.

It's starting to look like were going to lose it in the last few weeks. It's so frustrated but unless Joe and Barack show up to the next debates im pretty sure were done for thanks in large part to Mitt Romney AND THE FACT THAT NO ONE IS CALLING HIM OUT ON HIS LIES!!!! WTF KIND OF MEDIA DO WE HAVE?????????????

[RBInMaine]

23. You are skyfalling. For Christ sake, will you please chill the hell out. It is just FOOLISHNESS.

[patrice]

29. See my post #28 above re Pew SKEW

[bushisanidiot]

31. Hope Romney enjoyed his minute of "victory" (MSM not calling him out on his lies)

because he's already starting to sink again.

can't wait for his next foot in mouth gaffe.