Gallup 10/21: R-52/O-45

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[tatown]

Romney-52 Obama-45

[tatown]

Back up by 7!

[onevoter]

Let’s keep our fingers crossed - looking good!

[onevoter]

Let’s keep our fingers crossed - looking good!

[Perdogg]

When does Gallup change the weight?

[tatown]

Ping!

Back up by 7. Romney up 3 with RV’s as well now!

[SoftwareEngineer]

Wow! Did not expect that. I expected to see 50-46 today as Gallup succumbed to pressure

Gallup even has Romney up in Registered voters

Someone .. somewhere... is getting spanked...

[ez]

Gallup doesn’t weight. They call huge numbers over 7 days...some 3500 likely voters. They allow the voters to self-identify and the party id has trends just like the vote.

[LS]

Did I see that the Ras Swing State poll is now 4-points now?

[SharpRightTurn]

It appears Mr. Gallup wasn’t cowed by Axelhead’s threats.

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[BlueStateRightist]

Keep it up, Barry. Muppets and binders.

[Signalman]

No one in the history of the Gallup Poll has ever lost the election for president if they’re above 50% after mid-October.

[nhwingut]

Up 7 with 16 days to go!!

Not to get cocky, but Obama needs a Romney scandal or epic collapse in the debate to win.

Even Chuck Todd and Jon Martin said there is potential of a Romney landslide. Woo hoo...

Time for some football!

[FlingWingFlyer]

That loud boom was Eric the Holder’s head exploding.

[TornadoAlley3]

shhhh...it is really 56-41.

[WashingtonSource]

Is this 5 or 6 days, it’s been at 52 or 51 to 45?

[SamAdams76]

So much for the "Comeback Kid" meme that some of us feared the mainstream media/pollsters were setting us up for. If the polls were being cooked to show an "Obama surge", it would have had to have begun days ago, right after the second debate.

For an incumbent president to be 7 points behind (and at 45%) in a major poll just two weeks before the election is devastating. While Gallup is still an outlier, the other polling outfits who have this race a little closer also have Obama down around 45% - not a good place for an incumbent president to be just two weeks out.

I do not believe tomorrow night's final debate will have much material impact on the race. The American voters saw what they needed to see on the first debate. All they needed to see was that Romney is a man who can handle the job - mission accomplished.

[nhwingut]

No one in the history of the Gallup Poll has ever lost the election for president if they’re above 50% after mid-October.

And the calendar is on the verge of moving from "mid" to late October.

[pabianice]

How can this be squared with the Rass poll, which is also respected?

[DefeatCorruption]

That loud boom was Eric the Holder’s head exploding

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I’d like a visual on that!