President Obama continues to claw his way back in the polls, though Republican challenger Mitt Romney still leads nationwide.
The president is recuperating a bit from the pounding he took after the first presidential debate in Denver. In the two weeks after the debate, Romney surged nearly 5 points in the polls, enough to put him tied or slightly ahead by most metrics.
While Obama has stopped Romney's ascent, the president has only regained about half the support he lost.
The latest Rasmussen tracking poll has Romney up by 2 points, 49 percent to Obama's 47 percent.
An IDB/TIPP poll shows Obama up by 1 point, 46-47 percent.
And the daily Gallup poll has Romney up by a whopping 4 percent, hitting the 50 percent mark, compared to Obama's 46 percent.
Gallup also collaborated with USA Today on a poll in 12 swing states which shows Romney with a 5-point lead. That result could be the worst one for Obama, since he needs swing state support to carry the Electoral College. The poll also showed eroding support for Obama from women, a necessary constituency for any Democrat.
Obama carried women nationwide by 13 points in 2008 against John McCain, but the USA Today/Gallup poll shows him only up by 2 points with women in swing states.
A slew of national polls run the gamut from Romney up by 3 points to Obama up by more than four and a half points. However, several of the Obama-leaning polls contain data from before the first presidential debate, when Obama's numbers began to slide.
Still, even with all the bad news over the last few weeks, the odds are on Obama winning in November, literally.
Prediction market Intrade, which allows bets on future events, including the outcome of the presidential election, puts Obama at a 61 percent chance to win.
FiveThirtyEight, which tracks an aggregate of all polls nationwide, still has Obama at a 66 perent chance of winning. While that's up 3 percent since the weekend, it's down 8 percent from a week ago.
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