1. Obama keeps small lead on Romney, debate bleeding
stemmed
President Barack Obama retained a slim lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in the
Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll today, as he appeared to have stemmed the bleeding from his
poor first debate.
Three weeks before the Nov. 6 U.S. election, Obama leads Romney by 2 percentage points,
with 47 percent support from likely voters in the national online poll, to 45 percent support for
Romney.
The margin was small enough to be a virtual tie, but Obama’s slight edge broadened from
Sunday, when he went ahead of Romney by 1 point after falling behind in the wake of
Romney’s decisive victory in their first presidential debate on Oct. 3.
“Romney received a bump from that first debate, but the very nature of a bump is it recedes
again,” Ipsos vice president Julia Clark said. “We’re now seeing Obama regaining a little bit of
a foothold as we go into the second debate. They go into the debate on equal footing.”
The two men meet again on Tuesday night at New York’s Hofstra University in a debate that
Obama needs to win to grab back the campaign momentum. The third debate is set for Oct. 22
in Boca Raton, Florida.
Obama’s support in the new Reuters/Ipsos survey was particularly strong…
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