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Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
SWING STATE DAILY TRACKING: Obama 45%, Romney 45%
Saturday, September 01, 2012 

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 47% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns 44% of the vote. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided. 

As expected, Romney is enjoying a modest bounce from the past week's Republican National Convention. He trailed the president by two when the convention began and is up by three today. See daily tracking history. He also has gained ground in the swing state tracking results updated daily for subscribers at 10:00 a.m. Eastern. 

It will take a few more days to fully measure the bounce. This update is based on nightly interviews and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. As a result, roughly two-thirds of the interviews were conducted before Romney’s speech to the convention Thursday night. Next week is Obama’s convention which should produce its own bounce. Barring something unusual next week in Charlotte, we won’t really know which convention produced the bigger bounce until about a week after the Democratic National Convention. 

While the conventions produce short-lived bounces for the campaigns, Scott Rasmussen notes that for many Americans the conventions “provide a stark reminder of how out of touch our political system has become.”  He adds, “A half-century ago, conventions mattered because they actually selected presidential candidates. Today, they only serve to remind us that what interests -- and entertains -- the political class has little to do with what America needs.” 

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Check out our review of last week’s key polls to see “What They Told Us.” 

A president’s job approval rating is one of the best indicators for assessing his chances of reelection. Typically, the president’s job approval rating on Election Day will be close to the share of the vote he receives. Currently, 48% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's job performance. Fifty-two percent (52%) at least somewhat disapprove of the job Obama is doing (see trends). 

Forty-four percent (44%) of voters now see Obama as Very Liberal, and 30% see Romney as Very Conservative. 

Still, just 35% give Obama good or excellent marks for his handling of the economy.  Forty-four percent (44%) believe he’s doing a poor job. 

Forty-eight percent (48%) trust Romney more than Obama on the election’s top issue, the economy.  Forty-four percent (44%) trust the president more. The good news for Romney is that he still has the edge on this issue. The good news for Obama is that Romney’s advantage has been shrinking over the last few months. 

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