Ipsos/Reuters Poll: Conventions Day 10

Washington, D.C. - Day 10 of Ipsos' daily convention poll tracking shows little movement in voting intention, with Obama ticking down one point from yesterday. The vast majority of interviews in this dataset will have taken place before Michelle Obama's speech last night. As you can see from the pie charts (see sidebar) 61% of Americans have seen `nothing at all' or `just a little bit' about the Democratic Convention.

In many ways, the Conventions are for the party `faithful' rather than for the general public. This is reflected in the 70% of Republicans who have seen, heard, or read a `great deal' or `some' about the Republican Convention, compared to 51% of Democrats who say the same. We'll see a similar (though reverse of course) trend for the Dem convention next week.

You can see that many of the attributes for Obama are beginning to trend back upwards, while some of those for Romney are now dropping off. This reflects the end of the small convention bump that Romney received.

Tomorrow's data will give us the first real metric on the first full day of the Convention.

These are findings from an Ipsos poll conducted for Thomson Reuters from Sept 1-5, 2012. For the survey, a sample of 1,352 American registered voters was interviewed online. The precision of the Reuters/Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus 3.0 percentage points for all respondents. For more information about credibility intervals, please see the appendix.

The data were weighted to the U.S. current population data by gender, age, education, and ethnicity. Statistical margins of error are not applicable to online polls. All sample surveys and polls may be subject to other sources of error, including, but not limited to coverage error and measurement error. Figures marked by an asterisk (*) indicate a percentage value of greater than zero but less than one half of a per cent. Where figures do not sum to 100, this is due to the effects of rounding.

Non-aligned Registered Voters are defined as those individuals not indicating a candidate preference at the Presidential Voting Intention question (Q3 below).

For more information on this news release please contact:

Julia Clark Vice President Ipsos Public Affairs 202.463.3623 [email protected]

Clifford Young Senior Vice President Ipsos Public Affairs 202.420.2016 [email protected]

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