Today was pretty sparsely polled. I didn't see any swing state polling, so we were mostly stuck with the national tracking polls. Today's polling also does not take into account last night's strong debate performance from the President, though I'm not expecting a huge bounce either way.
There was really no discernible patter evident in today's tracking numbers. Romney had a nice gain with his friendliest pollster, Mr. Rasmussen. He now leads 50-46 in that poll, which comes close to his Gallup lead. Gallup, for its part, found Romney's 6 point lead among likely voters down to 5 points. These are not high quality polls and should not be the main basis for our analyses. At this point, I use them more to track movement in the race.
The IBD/TIPP showed Obama's lead down to 2 points from an unrealistic high of 6 yesterday. The Washington Post/ABC tracker moved to Romney +1 from Obama + 1 yesterday, though they note that Romney's lead today is only about .07%. (Did I tell you I hate when pollsters use decimal points?). That honestly comes down to probably one person, so unless you're a complete hack, the poll represents a tie. PPP's tracker showed Romney up 2, though it's poll for this site showed a tied race, after showing Romney up 4 yesterday. Obama gained a point to retake the lead in the Reuters/Ipsos poll.
All of this seems to me to be random polling noise and isn't really a sign of anything. With no swing state polls to talk about, today's polling pretty much represented the status quo.