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The difference is money is only about 3 millions. Both reached more than $110m. With several months collecting less than Romney, of course 0bama worked as hard as he could to collect money from his patrons, which resulted in them collecting a bit higher than Romney.

As you said, the polls might simply reflect the convention bounce. Republicans were in disadvantage when their convention fell under the shadow of Isaac, so people's attention was not there yet. When they started to pay attention, the media bombarded the wire with DNC.

There are a lot to be done, but no reason to be panic. Yet.

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“There are a lot to be done, but no reason to be panic. Yet.”

Exactly, it is early yet. Romney has around 50 million more than Obama right now, and very well out raise him during the next few months as he starts his ad campaign in earnest.

Yes the debates can change enough voters minds, or even more important, encourage people to actually go out and vote on election day. You only need to change 3% of the voters minds to change a close election.

The ground game will be critical this year. Has anyone heard any reports on how this is going for each candidate? A critical part of the campaign, and very little coverage, yet everyone panics over one poll.

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Something also to consider Romney has more Superpacs running ads