The Gallup daily tracking poll released just two hours ago has John McCain at his highest level of support since early May. He leads Barack Obama 48 to 45 among registered voters.
McCain’s 5-point to 6-point bounce so far, like Obama’s, remains at par with historical expectations. In the 22 major-party conventions since 1964, the nominee walked away with, on average in most years, a 5-point to 6-point uptick in Gallup’s polls. The presidential polling will likely remain in flux until the middle of next week.
Today's Gallup report continues to include some polling conducted prior to McCain's acceptance speech. Tomorrow's report will be the first to include interviews solely conducted following the close of the GOP convention.
Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll also reported today that when "leaners” are included, Obama and McCain are now tied at 48 percent. That means that, by Rasmussen’s measure, Obama’s 6-point bounce has been erased. CBS News polling had shown the same outcome midway through the GOP convention.
McCain’s resurgence in the polls comes as Nielsen Media Research reported that the Republican convention earned more television viewers than the Democratic convention. Republicans earned an average audience of 34.5 million, while Democrats earned an average viewership of 30.2 million.
The spread is wider on the USA Today/Gallup Poll where the McCain-Palin ticket leads Obama-Biden 5o to 46 among registered voters, and wider still among likely voters where the McCain-Palin lead is 54 to 44.
McCain has narrowed Obama's wide advantage on handling the economy, by far the electorate's top issue. Before the GOP convention, Obama was favored by 19 points; now he's favored by 3.
You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that boosting domestic oil production is going to be good for the economy. McCain and Palin are for it, Obama and Biden won't buck the radical environmentalists. Is it too much to hope that the public is finally catching on that Obama and Biden are a pair of empty suits? The liberal press has been working overtime pretending that the drivel coming out of the Obama campaign represents an actual position on something. Apparently people aren't that gullible. Dare we hope?
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