CBS News National Poll: Obama +2

[cinyc]

CBS News National Poll
Obama 48% (-1 from September)
Romney 46% (-)
Undecided 4% (-)

October 17-20; 790 LV; MoE+/-4

Obama is expected to win tonight's debate, 42%-34%.

[Oakvale]

Glorious news!

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

CBS News National Poll
Obama 48% (-1 from September)
Romney 46% (-)
Undecided 4% (-)

October 17-20; 790 LV; MoE+/-4

Election night is going to be super fun times for political junkies.

In my estimation, this is close to being right.  

[Sbane]

Great news!

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Interesting news!

[Landslide Lyndon]

Sublime news!

[Eraserhead]

Glad to see Obama is not an overwhelming favorite to win the debate. We don't want expectations getting out of control just because he did well last week.

[Ty440]

Obama's best polling day in quite awhile.

[Eraserhead]

RCP better come up with a reason not to add this to their average!

[Cliffy]

19% more enthused for romney

Romney winning on economy/jobs and deficit, by 3 and 6 :

53% wrong track, 40% right track

Men are tied?  I don't think so

Only a 5% woman advantage for Obama

Obama winning independents by 4, goes against the majority of polls

This statement is a little suspect

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Can't find breakdowns for race or sex

Looks like poll was weighted by party ID to 0 or it just happened to be perfectly even, It's listed under the weighted column.  Would be credible if it had explanations. 

[Lief 🗽]

Another high quality, large sample national poll shows the race tied or Obama with a slim advantage. Those R-leaning tracking polls flooding the poll averages are increasingly looking like garbage.

[J. J.]

Trending Romney. 

[NVGonzalez]

Gnarly news!

[Lief 🗽]

Trending Romney. 

Yes, it's trended one point to Romney since September. At this rate, Mitt Romney will pull ahead sometime in mid-January.

[pepper11]

Trending Romney! Just like the country. Great news.

[Likely Voter]

CBS polls since Romney wrapped up nomination

Date Romney / Obama
10/17 - 10/20  46 / 48
9/8 - 9/12        46 / 49   
8/22 - 8/26      45 / 46
7/11 - 7/16      47 / 46
5/11 - 5/13      46 / 43      

[old timey villain]

CBS polls since Romney wrapped up nomination

Date Romney / Obama
10/17 - 10/20  46 / 48
9/8 - 9/12        46 / 49   
8/22 - 8/26      45 / 46
7/11 - 7/16      47 / 46
5/11 - 5/13      46 / 43      

Very telling. I think Obama supporters got way too overconfident in September and we forgot that this race was always destined to be a close one.

[pa2011]

Don't really remember a time when so many different state and national polls have shown so many different plausible scenerios. I still won't be shocked if Obama carries every state he did in 08, except Indiana, somehow in the end. Likewise, keeping open possiblity Gallup is right and Romney sweeps nearly all the swing states, including Ohio and Wisconsin, Virginia, Florida, NC, Colorado, Iowa.

[pbrower2a]

It now boils down to "Which pollsters do you like?" As with news we get whatever news perfectly fits our demographics and ideology unless we are parts of tiny slivers of the electorate (like Communists). 

[Vote UKIP!]

Outlier.