So far, there’s no sign that the Vice-Presidential debate has done anything to upset what is beginning to look like a comfortable lead for Barack Obama.
The Rasmussen tracking poll continues to show Obama about 50% with a statisically significant lead:
With one month to go until Election Day, the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Barack Obama attracting 51% of the vote while John McCain earns 45%. For each of the past nine days, Obama has been at 50% or 51% and McCain has been at 44% or 45%. The stability of these results suggests that the McCain campaign faces a the very steep challenge in the remaining few weeks of Election 2008.
Obama is viewed favorably by 56% of voters, McCain by 53%
Obama is also maintaining a steady lead in the Gallup Daily tracking poll:
PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Oct. 1-3 finds 50% of registered voters supporting Barack Obama, and 42% John McCain, for president.
Obama has now held a statistically significant lead over McCain for the last eight days, one shy of his campaign-best streak of nine days with a lead around the time of the Democratic National Convention.
Voter preferences appear somewhat stable at the moment, as Obama has held similar advantages over McCain in each of the last three individual nights’ polling. That includes Friday polling, the first interviews conducted following Thursday’s widely viewed vice presidential debate, the passage of the economic rescue bill supported by both Obama and McCain, and Friday’s bleak jobs report.
Next up, Tuesday’s debate.
