WaPo/ABC tracking poll Obama 49 Romney 48

[jezebel]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/11/romney-leads-in-confidence-on-recovery-but-obama-escapes-most-economic-blame/

Such views feed into the overall razor-close division in vote preferences, with 49 percent support for Obama, 48 percent for Romney in this latest four-day tracking poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates. That’s essentially where the race has been not just for weeks, but months.

The 1-point difference between the candidates is insignificant, given sampling error. Indeed – and not to imply false precision – taking it to two decimals, Obama has 48.56 percent support, Romney 48.49 percent – seven-hundredths of a percentage point difference between them. (If this sounds familiar, it was the same difference, albeit toward Romney, in results reported Oct. 23.)

Three of the four nights of this survey include the period when Hurricane Sandy approached and then hit the East Coast. Out of a national sample of 1,293 likely voters, 151 were interviewed those nights, Monday through Wednesday, in the Northeast. Results in this group are in accord with comparable data from nights before the storm struck.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. TY/nt

[geek tragedy]

2. Feel the Mittmentum. nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. I Had A Strong Feeling The Nat'l And State Polls Would Coverge/nt

[TroyD]

4. It makes me mad that Romney still does well on the economy

It shows how successful the Republican economic propaganda still is.

[TexasCPA]

5. Four years ago it was the opposite

Obama was rated strong for economy and McCain was rated strong for international. The people blame the party of the sitting president if the economy is not strong. Obama inherited a financial crisis though. It takes time to dig out of a deep hole.