Apparently a Gustav-shortened first day, and Joe Lieberman on day two, haven’t done much to give John McCain a boost in the polls just yet.
In Rasmussen’s tracking polls, Barack Obama and Joe Biden remain ahead of the McCain/Palin ticket:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows Barack Obama attracting 47% of the vote while John McCain earns 43%. When “leaners” are included, it’s Obama 50%, McCain 45%.
A slight up-tic for McCain/Palin, but not by much and not enough yet to overcome last week.
The results from the Gallup tracking poll are essentially the same:
PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama continues to hold a lead over John McCain, 49% to 42%, in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update.
The results are based on interviewing conducted Sept. 1-3. The vast majority of interviews on Wednesday evening were conducted before Sarah Palin gave her much-anticipated convention speech. However, the data do indicate that the initial first two nights of the convention — the slimmed down Monday program in deference to Hurricane Gustav and Tuesday’s speeches headlined by former senator Fred Thompson — have, so far, done little to change voter preferences.
Thursday’s interviewing will be the first to reflect the immediate impact of Palin’s speech, and the coming days will give a truer measure of the effect the GOP convention — including McCain’s acceptance speech tonight — is having on voters. Obama got a four percentage point increase in his share of the vote in Gallup Poll Daily tracking coming out of the Democratic convention last week, establishing a lead over McCain after the two had been exactly tied immediately prior to last week’s convention.
By Sunday, which is the next time I’ll have a chance to see these poll numbers, we should know whether there was a convention bounce of any kind for McCain/Palin, and where this race will be headed over the next several weeks.
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