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All this could mean is that polls are full of sh**. It could also mean Obama got a bounce from the convention once the news of Governor Palin's candidacy wore off. You also have to remember that Republicans typically poll poorly on weekends and yesterday was part of a 3 day weekend. Factor in the Hurricane and all the BS spread about that. In other words I don't think we have to get to excited about this poll, and the person who said Rasmussen is conservative I beg to differ, they usually are more fair but not necessarily conservative. I, for one, am not worried.

Has anyone looked at the demographics of this poll?

Since Rasmussen has his Party ID weights preset (based on the 30-day huge sample), the demographics of each daily sample does not matter much - he reweighs the sample anyway. Also, this minimizes the “weekend bias” and other real or imaginary sampling artifacts. What this bump shows is that Obama is consolidating all self-identified Democrats, and also pulls his share of Independents.