From Bloomberg, fresh evidence that Obama has built a solid lead nationally. If we believe the mountain of state polls which show comfortable Obama leads in the swing states (and we do), this is exactly what the national race should look like: Obama up by 5-7 points.
Bloomberg National Poll:
Conducted Sep 21-24 by Selzer & Co. based on interviews with 1,007 U.S. adults ages 18 or older. Margin of error +/- 3.5.
Among LV: Obama 49 Romney 43
A deeper look at the internals shows that this is not a particularly favourable sample for President Obama. The partisan split among likely voters is just D+2 (38D-36R). African Americans and Latinos make up just 10 and 7 percent of the sample, and the South seems disproportionately represented.
Also, interesting numbers in response to the "Are you better off than you were in 2009?" question. Those polled said yes by 43-33, indicating that Obama continues to win the argument Dems launched at the convention.
If anything, it provides more fodder for nitwit Republican bloggers to continue to "unskew".