Posted on 08/30/2012 8:26:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
(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."
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With all the enthusiam from 2008, Obama still only received 53 percent of the popular vote. He DEFINITELY won’t get that, but the electoral still worries me. He has many ways to win this thing and with us having a liberal Republican at the top of the ticket, it certainly isn’t bringing in much excitement. The excitement at the convention were from Clint Eastwood, Santorum, Ryan, Condi, and that is about it....No Romney excitement from the speech at all. All indications today is that Clint Eastwood is running for President.
It Reuters/IPSO the same poll that told us it was going to be President John Kerry in 2004.
It almost was. Let’s not go crazy here. Kerry and Gore were way too close for comfort. It’s not like Bush won either time with a mandate or anything.
No but every other poll had it for Bush going into the election, only Ipso/Reutuers published an election day poll claiming Kerry was going to win comfortably on Election day.
I know the lame stream does this all the time to look like they are winning. They are soooo afraid of O losing that they will do anything repeat ANYTHING to keep him in office.
Sorry for yelling at ya
And look where Obama is spending his time and money: He was in Fort Collins Colorado Tuesday (Colorado State) and will be turning around and going into Boulder (U/Colorado) on Saturday.
That's like a Republican doing repeated trips to Idaho Georgia and Utah. The whiff of desparation.
If he needs to shore up the college-town vote, he's in deep trouble (and by the way, Obama will NOT carry Colorado).
Obama will be campaigning in Oregon and Minnesota too.
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