Will Obama’s Post-Convention Bounce Fade Like McCain’s In 2008?

WASHINGTON — Just a week after the conclusion of the Democratic convention, most polls now show a boost for President Barack Obama. But the big question is whether Obama’s bigger lead will persist or whether it will turn out to be a temporary polling “bump.”

For the moment, most polls continue to show a post-convention Obama bounce. A new Fox News survey released on Wednesday shows Obama leading Republican nominee Mitt Romney by 5 percentage points (48 to 43 percent), and the latest Gallup Daily tracking poll, based on interviews conducted over the past week, shows Obama expanding his lead to 7 points (50 to 43 percent).

Meanwhile, national surveys conducted by seven more pollsters over the past week give Obama leads varying from 1 to 6 percentage points, and a new poll in Michigan published on Wednesday and sponsored by the Detroit Free Press and local television station WXYZ-TV showed Obama expanding his lead there from 3 to 10 percentage points since late August.

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