HUFFINGTON POST: The latest release of the Gallup Daily tracking poll Wednesday showed President Barack Obama leading Republican nominee Mitt Romney by six percentage points (50 to 44 percent), a shift from the tied race their tracking had shown just five days earlier…
Recent surveys have shown widespread awareness and mostly negative reactions to Romney’s 47 percent remarks. As of this writing, the HuffPost Pollster tracking model, which draws on all national and state level polling, shows Obama’s lead over Romney expanding by nearly a full percentage point since September 16, the day before news about Romney’s comments first appeared.
But the same chart shows that Obama’s lead in the national polling trend has been growing steadily during September. Since the end of the Republican convention on August 30, the chart shows Obama’s lead growing from roughly one to just over four percentage points… (more)
