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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNM poll by Albuquerque Journal has Obama up by only 5, but the polling was done before DNC ended
The Journal article
http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2012/09/09/news/nm-presidential-race-close.html
suggests it's a pretty close race, but they polled only 667 likely voters, and that was between Sept. 3 and Sept. 6. So about half their polling was done before Michelle Obama's speech, and 3/4 was done before Bill Clinton's speech, and all of it was done before President Obama's acceptance speech.
So the poll basically caught any slight bump for Romney from the RNC the week before, but was too early to show much, if any, of the DNC bounce.
Editing to add that I found that Journal article thanks to a story about it at TPM Livewire tonight
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/poll-obama-leads-new-mexico-by-5-points
but TPM said nothing about how long ago the polling was done -- a significant omission.
aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)Is this why there is an * on the poll in the RCP poll averages?
Quixote1818
(28,904 posts)WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)and neither is Obama, New Mexico should be fine.