Yeah b-tches! New Politico/GWU O: 49; R: 48 (adjusted for raw numbers or whatever)...

[piechartking]

http://www.politico.com/polls/politico-george-washington-university-battleground-poll.html

[leftynyc]

1. You posted this already

You're pushing this pretty hard.

[Tutonic]

2. Isn't it wonderful!

nt

[imgbitepolitic]

3. Push it more!!!

[piechartking]

4. This is the official 5 am release.

Sorry for being excited, but when I think of the conservatives who were waiting on that R +5, only to get this...yeah, I am pushing it hard. Also, people were saying it was a forgery, or that the raw numbers had to be adjusted...so when they officially released it I wanted to post again.

[leftynyc]

5. My apologies

My nerves are absolutely frayed. This is the update I was looking for.

[piechartking]

7. No problem...

A +3 swing in one week is a great note to end on for Obama, and I doubt that the MSM will be able to ignore the story much longer, if they aren't talking Hurricane all the time.

Plus, it has even more value because of Brit Hume's prediction. All in all, very satisfying news story surrounding this particular poll.

[leftynyc]

9. I do wonder where Britt Hume

got his information. He's pretty tuned in with many souces. He went pretty far out there with his prediction.

[blazeKing]

6. Brit Hume's

Day has just been ruined

[Jennicut]

8. Ed Goeas was trying to spin this as good for Romney.

He is the Repub that does part of the poll, Celinda Lake is the Dem. Saying he leads on "pocketbook" issues. But Obama has widened the gap with women again. The men that disapprove of Obama on the economy will vote for Mittens anyway. This is really, really good news but not surprising as the Purple Poll showed Obama had a slight lead in the battleground states as well. And it is hard to say how accurate this is for each state since Politco/GWU polled like Purple Strategies did and took a few people from each state to make their sample. 1,000 people through all the battlegrounds. When each state is broken down and looked at with the average of all polling, Obama is ahead in WI, OH, IA and NV and tied in CO and VA.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

10. This is a national poll, not just battleground/swing states.

[Jennicut]

11. Oh, good. Even better then, to lead nationally.

Thanks.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

12. It's confusing, with "Battleground" in the name of the poll.

[imgbitepolitic]

13. GOBAMA!

https://twitter.com/Obamamentum

[geek tragedy]

14. "Obama retakes the lead"--feel the Mittmentum! nt

[TroyD]

15. Excerpt:

Battleground Tracking Poll: Obama retakes lead

MARION, Ohio — With eight days to go until the election, President Barack Obama has recaptured a narrow national lead over Mitt Romney, riding increased support from women and an edge in early voting.

A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Tracking Poll of 1,000 likely voters — taken from last Monday through Thursday — shows Obama ahead of Romney by 1 percent, 49 to 48 percent. That represents a 3-point swing in Obama’s direction from a week ago but reflects a race that remains statistically tied.

Obama leads by 8 points among those who have already voted, 53 to 45 percent. These early voters represent 15 percent of the electorate, with many more expected to vote in the next few days — though Hurricane Sandy could change that.

SNIP

Obama leads among women by 11 points, 54 to 43 percent. The gap had narrowed to six points a week ago, but much of that survey was conducted before the GOP nominee’s comment at the second debate that he had reviewed “binders full of women” as part of a gender diversity effort as Massachusetts governor. Obama and his allies have also been hitting full swing at Romney as an enemy of womens’ rights on abortion and contraception in their advertising and speeches.

The president is now closer in standing to where he’s been the last few months, and the swing is due to female support. On every issue and question of character, women now favor Obama over Romney.

Men, meanwhile, support Romney over Obama by 12 points, 55 to 43 percent.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82986.html