[nhwingut]

Democrats are oversampled by +5 so there ya go

Explains much. Basically then race is tied,IMO. And of course CNN takes poll right after DNC, not RNC.

[King Hawk]

I aint buying it!

[Sarah Barracuda]

If you go on twitter follow this guy @NumbersMuncher
He is dissecting this CNN poll and showing why its absolutely RIDICULOUS. All this is is an attempt to make Republicans not show up at the polls because they think the election is already over. This worked for the Dems in 2008, I hope to God it wont work again

[Arthurio]

Among registered voters only, the numbers did not move one iota from CNN’s previous poll of a week ago. Among likely voters, Obama now gets a 6 point bump.

Basically, apathetic Democrats who missed the likely voter screen last week suddenly became enthusiastic from all the speeches and made the likely voter screen this week.

I doubt such enthusiasm can be sustained. Slick Willie can only give so many speeches. It does tell you one thing though: the RNC’s plain vanilla convention should have been tossing out more red meat like the Dims did.