The Rasmussen daily presidential tracking poll has found that the President’s post-convention bounce has evaporated, and we’re right back to where things stood before the major party infomercials:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows President Obama attracting support from 46% of voters nationwide, while Mitt Romney earns 45% of the vote. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided.
The president received a modest convention bounce, but that’s now gone. On the day the conventions began, Obama was up by two points. Now the numbers are essentially back to that starting point with the president leading by a point.
When “leaners” are included, it’s Romney 48% and Obama 47%. Leaners are those who initially indicate no preference for either candidate but express a preference for one of them in a follow-up question.
Whether these numbers encourage the GOP chicken littles to come out from hiding remains to be seen. So, too, does the effect, if any, of the murder of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, the brief takeover of the U.S. embassy in Cairo, and the craven official response to the latter.
