Gallup: Obama now leads by 5 points.

[RedSpartan]

Rmoney lost another point from yesterday. 49-44 Obama:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/150743/Obama-Romney.aspx

[demwing]

1. outside of the 2% MOE as well

Cant wait till it consistently averages above 50%

[rurallib]

2. my experience is that Gallup leans republican.

[longship]

3. 49-45 isn't that four points?

Where's the five point lead? Looks like four to me.

Typo?

[RedSpartan]

5. Yes, my typo. It is 5 points, but I had the numbers wrong in the post.

Fixed.

[longship]

8. It is good news, isn't it.

Love it. Thanks for fixing. For a minute I feared that Republican arithmetic had taken hold of the country.

[RedSpartan]

9. Ha!

[DemsUnited]

4. Good news

But no room for complacency especially since the job approval number took a hit. This election is going to be close and I for one will be dragging friends & family to the polls in Nov to make sure we keep moving FORWARD on women's rights, voting rights, health care reform, SS & medicare, "made in the USA" jobs and all the big issues that are at stake.

That said, all the +Obama polls sure do look good

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. The enthusiasm gap means that Democratic Party can't be complacent. Plus think down-ticket.

The Republican base is solidly Anybody But Obama. The Obama bloc is more fluid, less committed. Here's the enthusiasm gap:

[Swede Atlanta]

7. I don't trust polls.....

further....if this is a national poll it doesn't reveal the race where the stakes really are - the swing states. The statistics may actually show that in traditionally blue states like New York, Massachusetts, California, etc. Obama may have a 7 or 8 point lead but could in fact be trailing, even or barely ahead in key states like Ohio, Wisconsin, Colorado, etc.

We must keep working, working, working. I don't trust polls and I don't trust the Republican election stealing machine nor their slime machine when that machine will slam hundreds of millions of dollars of misinformation into the campaign in the 2 weeks prior to the election.

[Jennicut]

10. Per PPP Obama has a high single digit lead in Ohio.

They also said that in their swing state and national polling data from this past week is looking like 2008. We cannot be complacent but Obama is starting to establish leads in the swing states which is incredibly important. PPP will have some swing state polls in the next few days, maybe even tonight.

[TroyD]

15. PPP says their Ohio poll will be out tonight

Plan is to have Ohio results between 9 and 10 tonight- looks like Obama leads there by more than 2008 margin of victory

https://twitter.com/ppppolls

[SmittynMo]

11. I don't trust polls either.

I strongly suspect it will be a landslide in November, and have thought that for months. Obama doesn't have to do a thing from here on out. He's done. Team Rmoney is self destructing on a daily basis and has been doing so for months. Ya gotta love stupid. Go team Obama!!!! 4 more years, 4 more years.

[kurt_cagle]

16. Two words - Voter Suppression

There is no question that there will be attempts at voter suppression in every swing state, and as the numbers look increasingly negative for Romney, expect more of the shadow money to be poured into dirty tricks and voter suppression.

[CreekDog]

12. Obama doesn't have a 7-8 point lead in traditionally blue states

like California, Massachusetts, and New York.

Obama has more like a 20+ percent lead.

though I agree with your conclusion that we shouldn't take anything for granted, but the poll is not about a 7-8 point lead in traditionally blue states --he's doing far, far better than that in all the blue states, not just his strong ones.

[quaker bill]

17. Some polls put it at 30+ in the really blue states

[Tarheel_Dem]

13. K&R

[fbguy_144]

14. outstanding news

hope it continues..