Still no sign that Tuesday’s debate moved the needle in the Presidential election.
Rasmussen has Obama leading McCain by seven points:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Barack Obama attracting 52% of the vote while John McCain earns 45%. This is the first update based entirely on interviews conducted after the second Presidential debate and it shows virtually no change. On Tuesday morning, just before the debate, Obama was leading 52% to 44%.
In fact, the race has remained quite stable for more than two weeks. This is the sixteenth straight day that Obama’s support has ranged from 50% to 52% while McCain has been at 44% of 45%
Gallup, meanwhile, has Obama up by nine points:
PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Oct. 8-10 finds Barack Obama holding a sizeable lead over John McCain in national voter preferences, as he has continuously for the past six days. Today’s report puts Obama ahead by nine percentage points, 51% to 42%.
An additional 1% of registered voters say they will vote for another specific candidate in the race, leaving just 6% who are totally undecided with 24 days left before the election.
Obama has led McCain by close to 10 points for each of the past six days, and by a statistically significant margin of at least four points for more than two weeks. It has been a full month since McCain held a significant lead over Obama, the last time being from Sept. 8-10 when he led with 48% of the vote, to Obama’s 44%.
As before, this remains Obama’s race.
