Obama's Problems Didn't Start With the Debate
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Obama's Problems Didn't Start With the Debatehttp://t.co/iBchhdxjObama's Problems Didn't Start With the Debate
—By Kevin Drum
| Sat Oct. 13, 2012 1:58 PM PDT
What's going on with the polls? I wrote something about this a few days ago, but I think it might have gotten buried, so I want to repeat it. According to both Pollster and Real Clear Politics, Mitt Romney began his big surge well before last week's 
debate. In the ten days before the debate, Pollster shows Romney gaining 2.4 points and RCP shows Romney gaining 1.8 points
debate. In the ten days before the debate, Pollster shows Romney gaining 2.4 points and RCP shows Romney gaining 1.8 points
Romney has continued gaining since then, and Obama has continued falling, but this isn't solely a reaction to Obama's lousy debate performance. It started in late September. But why? Nothing special happened during that week to benefit Romney. Their ad buys remained about the same as always. The only thing I can think of is that it was just the inevitable rebound from the hit Romney took over the 47% video.
In any case, there's more going on here than just the debate that everyone's been obsessing about. Anyone have any good guesses about what happened during that last week of September?
