(adapted from The Fix) 1. Romney Helped Himself: Romney’s rise into a dead heat in national polling began almost immediately after the first debate. 2. Obama is a Fair-to-Good Debater: After his first debate disaster, Obama picked himself up off the political mat and put in solid performances, peaking in...
The instant polls produced an Obama victory, according to CNN (48%-40%), but with Romney passing the commander-in-chief test in the eyes of those who watched. The reactions offered real-time confirmation that most voters are locked into their choices and are not likely to be swayed by a few exchanges between...
While the peripherals to the campaign — among them, the media — obsess and grind their teeth over the polls, the campaign professionals are increasingly focused on the ground game itself. Which means that the election is rapidly drawing to the point where it is pried away from the peripherals...
The AP-GfK poll, taken Friday through Tuesday, shows Romney pulling even with Obama among women at 47-47 after lagging by 16 points a month earlier.
After saying that he still considers himself a Republican “of a more moderate mold, and that’s something of a dying breed, I’m sorry to say,” he said he will vote for Obama again.
A new Time magazine poll shows President Obama up 5 points over Mitt Romney in Ohio, 49% - 44%. In a CBS/Quinnipiac University poll released earlier this week, Obama led Romney 50% - 45%. No Republican has ever won the White House without Ohio and, not surprisingly, it’s feeling the...