Final Gallup poll has Romney up 49/48. Calls it a tie.

[RandySF]

Gallup editor-in-chief Frank Newport tells Bloomberg Businessweek that the release of Monday’s tracking poll, set for 1 p.m., will show Mitt Romney leading President Obama 49 percent to 48 percent among likely voters nationally. This is the first tracking poll released since Hurricane Sandy and notable for the strong movement to Obama. The last Gallup poll on Oct. 29 showed Romney up by 5 points–51 percent to 46 percent. Romney’s one-point lead is within the margin of error and, statistically speaking, amounts to a tie. “It’s tied today at 1 o’clock,” Newport said by phone Monday morning.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-05/breaking-gallup-to-show-romney-obama-in-dead-heat

[DURHAM D]

1. .

[Nye Bevan]

4. How is this amusing?

I see it as a wake-up call that the race is close and GOTV is important. But I guess that's just me.

[DURHAM D]

5. It is Gallup.

That says it all.

[Nye Bevan]

6. All the polls are close (nt)

[cilla4progress]

2. I'm sorry -

your point?

[sharp_stick]

3. Wow, what a shocker

I wonder who didn't see this coming?

[mzmolly]

7. Interesting. I'm glad they adjusted their fantasy,

to a national "tie" vs. a Rmoney landslide. Obama gained 4, even in their flawed, Republican tilt model.