Great article
Romney never really led in that 2012 RAND poll. Obama had it all the way after the DNC convention.
No doubt it is the same poll as “The 2016 USC Dornsife / LA Times Presidential Election Poll” In the link below I don’t see the graph, but it almost identical otherwise:
https://alpdata.rand.org/?page=election2012
The PDF (link below) has the 2012 details: