The Democrat's apparent advantage has held this week.
by Mark Silva
ST. PAUL - Barack Obama's apparent advantage over John McCain is "undented'' near the conclusion of the Republican National Convention, Gallup reports.
Obama continues to lead McCain by 49 to 42 percent in the latest Gallup Poll daily tracking survey.
The results are based on interviewing Sept. 1-3. The daily track carries a possible margin of error of plus or minus 2 percent.
"The vast majority of interviews on Wednesday evening were conducted before Sarah Palin gave her much-anticipated convention speech,'' Gallup's Jeff Jones reports.
"However, the data do indicate that the initial first two nights of the convention -- the slimmed down Monday program in deference to Hurricane Gustav and Tuesday's speeches headlined by former senator Fred Thompson -- have, so far, done little to change voter preferences,''.
Today's survey "will be the first to reflect the immediate impact of Palin's speech, and the coming days will give a truer measure of the effect the GOP convention -- including McCain's acceptance speech tonight -- is having on voters,'' Jones adds
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