PPP national tracking Obama 49 Romney 48. Obama now leads with independents.

[jezebel]

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/1031111112TrackerResults.pdf

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Barack Obama continues to lead 49-48 based on the last 3 nights of our national tracking

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Obama's approval on positive ground at 49/48- the first time in 3 weeks we've been doing the daily tracker:

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Obama's also pulled ahead with independents in our national tracking at 50/44:

[Trajan]

1. Sandy killed Romney's campaign ....

It reared up like a giant tsunami and plowed right through his juggernaut of stupidity ....

The inanity of the Chrysler ad didn't hurt the process ....

He is done - The independents have stopped moving towards him, and have turned back around to Obama ... (well, some of them did ...) .. The numbers are moving away from Willard, and they wont be coming back ....

Sandy killed it, and it's not ever coming back .... They are outta time and outta luck ....

Good bye !

[VirginiaTarheel]

2. PPP will only have three more tracking polls

The end of the campaign is truly nigh.

[bigdarryl]

3. The President only has a three point advantage among woman

WTF!!!!

[VirginiaTarheel]

4. Which means he is nearly even with men

Of course, I doubt either one. They are wrong on gender demos.

[geek tragedy]

5. Party splits look weird.

Romney winning 17% of Democrats and Obama winning 11% of Republicans?

[TroyD]

6. That's an excellent trend

One of the consistent polling weaknesses this year for Obama in some polls has been with Independents (even though it's hard to tell how many of them are truly Independents since many may actually be Republicans).

Several pollsters seem to be picking up movement from Independents towards Obama ( even Rasmussen today).

[TroyD]

7. 'Obama's approval on positive ground at 49/48- the first time in 3 weeks'

I find this odd.

Even Republican-leaning pollsters like Rasmussen have had good Approval numbers for Obama of 50% several times over the past 3 weeks.

So while these are good numbers overall from PPP, they actually appear to be low-balling some of Obama's numbers.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

8. the new theme around the Team Mittens campaign offices