2012 Election Center: The Main Event - Obama Wins

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gergroy said:

GameOver22 said:

gergroy said:
gallops last poll came out today, romney 49, obama 48

interesting

I was actually more interested in the fact that Gallup had it that close. Prior to Sandy hitting (after which they suspended their polls), all their polls were generally showing Romney up by 4-6 points. I was almost thinking that Obama's mini-surge was just a product of Gallup exiting the polls.

I think Sandy did end up hurting Romney.  Obama got to look like a president and focus on a crisis, while Romney was forced to sit on the sidelines and pretend to help by turning his rallies into a disaster relief operation. 

Possible. I haven't seen enough data to say anything definitive although there hasn't been any real shift in presidential approval ratings. Looking at the data, it looks more like people are moving from the undecided to the decided category, which makes sense given the election is held tomorrow, and it seems to be benefitting Obama at the moment.