After switching to their likely voter model and showing Romney ahead by 2 points yesterday, Gallup now shows a tied race. The poll covers Oct. 3-9. This would seem to imply that Obama is up again in the poll taken on the 9th, and that once the post debate days trail out of the poll, Obama will be back in the lead.
In Wednesday's poll, conducted Oct. 3-9, Obama and Romney each earn the support of 48 percent of likely voters nationwide. On Tuesday, Romney held a 2-point edge.
But even amid a tight presidential race, Obama has maintained his strong approval rating seen recently in Gallup's polling. Wednesday's release shows 53 percent of American adults approve of the job Obama is doing as president, compared with 42 percent who disapprove. Obama's approval rating has been at least 50 percent in seven of the last eight Gallup tracking polls.
Gallup has also announced today that since October 1st, they've been using a 50/50 split between land line and
cell phone users in their polling.
Previously, 40 percent of the organization's tracking poll samples consisted of Americans reached by cell phone.