Romney takes lead over Obama with convention "bounce": Reuters/Ipsos poll (44-42 likely voters)

Reuters ^ | 08/30/2012 | Steve Holland

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(Reuters) - Mitt Romney has moved into a narrow lead over U.S. President Barack Obama in a small bounce for him from the Republican National Convention, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found on Thursday.

Romney entered the week four points behind Obama in the first installment of a Reuters/Ipsos rolling poll, with Obama leading 46 percent to 42 percent.

But the most recent daily rolling poll gave Romney a two-point lead of 44 percent to 42 percent among likely voters.

The former governor of Massachusetts has been in the spotlight at the convention in Tampa, Florida, and was to make his acceptance speech on Thursday night in the biggest test of his White House bid.

Ipsos pollster Julia Clark said the poll results were proof that Romney is getting a positive outcome from the three-day Republican gathering.

"I'd say the convention is going very well for him," she said.

So-called convention "bounces" are typically short-lived. With Obama to accept his party's nomination for a second term next week at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, the incumbent could quickly rebound.

But the poll was further evidence of an extremely close race between Romney and Obama as they seek to energize party activists and appeal to undecided voters in battleground states who could determine the outcome of the election on November 6.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll also found signs that Romney's likability rating is slowly improving among voters, two days after his wife, Ann, talked up her husband's personal attributes and declared, "This man will not fail."

[Private_Sector_Does_It_Better]

Hope your right, we’ll begin to get some indications In the poling over the next few days.

[Private_Sector_Does_It_Better]

Hope you’re right, we’ll begin to get some indications In the poling over the next few days.

[Retired Greyhound]

The key takeaway from this poll is that Obama is at 42%.

He’s toast.

[profit_guy]

D+5

[Nifster]

And what is the split of dens/indies/repubs ?? Ipsos is known for skewing the distribution by 8-10 points to the left....

[Nifster]

Your title is WRONG in the worst possible way...this is a poll of REGISTERED voters NOT likely voters. That is a very misleading title you threw up there

[MacMattico]

Preview of DNC:

I killed Bin Laden!
War on Women!
Bush’s fault!
Tax the rich!

Repeat for three days.

[MaxMax]

CNN made a statement of fact checking everything Ryan said.
Just for kicks I want to see what they say about the DNC.

[profit_guy]

Not only is this poll of Registered Voters at D+5, but how can Obama win with voters thinking all these things are on the "Wrong track"?? Even Dems and Independents!

[Retired Greyhound]

This media notion that the American people really still personally like Obama is a pipe dream.

[Lacey2]

It seems as if this poll had to have been taken before the speech by Romney and so cannot accurate as far as the bounce he will ultimately receive.

I also agree the 14% undecided is very strange since people at this point know Obama well enough to know if they will vote for him or not. Perhaps they are deciding if they will vote for Romney or stay home. Since I don't believe any McCain voters will either stay home or switch to Obama any undecideds will more than likely break for Romney.

[nathanbedford]

Bingo!

[Biggirl]

Frankly, Obama is sooooooooo YESTERDAY.

[taildragger]

The key takeaway from this poll is that Obama is at 42%. He’s toast.

Yes and it is worse, for years we heard the Democratic Base is 43% of the electorate, he lost 1/43 here, and this is not including were these "likely" voters and what was the "over-sampling"...

[taildragger]

This is a dam that will break in Nov, like it did for Reagan against Carter.

Speaking of Carter...

I hear the DNC is gonna have him address the crowd by tape.

Oh goody, that ought to be about as much fun as one of those black and white communicable disease films in high school back in the day....

Now compare Carter, to Governor Martinez or Mia Love, who has got the "Big Mo" and who is uplifting...

[GlockThe Vote]

Going to be be a freak show.

[ilovesarah2012]

I don’t understand how anyone is undecided unless they are just plain stupid. But Obama gets the stupid vote.

[Thane_Banquo]

These presidential election polls are intentionally being skewed in the One’s favor. There are tons of things you can do with methodology to skew a poll. When you look at non-election polls like the one you gave, there is no way an incumbent President gets re-elected in that situation.. His real, un-edited numbers have to be almost as bad as Bush’s were in 2008..

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RE: .this is a poll of REGISTERED voters NOT likely voters.

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I was simply quoting from the article itself. It says (CUT and PASTE ):

“But the most recent daily rolling poll gave Romney a two-point lead of 44 percent to 42 percent among likely voters.”

If there’s anyone misleading, it’s the author(s) of the article.

[MNJohnnie]

It Reuters/IPSO the same poll that told us it was going to be President John Kerry in 2004. This is a really bad sign for 0 since this poll historically tracks way left of reality.