Polls bust Romney Momentum Myth

[Bill USA]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/25/presidential-polls-romney-surge_n_2016066.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&utm_hp_ref=politics

WASHINGTON -- New polls released on Wednesday and Thursday continue to show President Barack Obama holding narrow leads in a handful of critical battleground states, but running within a whisker of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney nationwide.

While Romney gained significantly in the wake of the first presidential debate in early October, the lack of a continuing trend over the past two weeks helps counter a theme in some campaign coverage that Romney's support continues to "surge" nationwide.

The most recent updates of the seven daily national tracking polls continue to split in terms of which candidate holds the nominal lead, ranging from a 4 percentage-point lead for Romney on the Rasmussen Reports automated tracking to a 3 point Obama advantage on the Investor's Business Daily/TIPP poll.



Separately, a new Associated Press/GfK survey released on Thursday morning showed Romney with a 2 percentage-point edge over Obama (47 to 45 percent).

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[JRLeft]

1. According to Michael Steele Robbedme is winning.

And Chicago is nervous.

[louis-t]

5. And Russia and China will be so impressed with him they'll

do whatever he says.

[IrishMidget]

2. At Least Reuters has him up by 2

[Florida Dem]

3. Last Debate At Least Froze The Polls?

It seems like Obama's last two debate victories have at least frozen the polls in place for the most part. As shown in the OP polls look mixed at the national level. Obama holds a razor-thin margin in some of the key battleground states (Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa). I'll feel better if some of those states break outside the margin of error (towards Obama) before November 6th. The idea of continuing Romney momentum is complete B.S.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

4. If holding on by your fingernails is momentum

Romney has it.

OB's polling has already improved and most of the polls being published now still include pre-debate data.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. Can't the media prop up a more realistic candidate than Romney?!

It continues to escape me how we are supposed to believe that the media "liberally biased"? If it really were, they'd be pumping up President Obama, right? Or have I missed something?