While the Gallup daily tracking poll is still out of commission from the effects of Hurricane Sandy, other national polls show Republican challenger Mitt Romney losing his grip on the popular vote just days before the presidential election.
The Rasmussen tracking poll has Romney in a dead heat with President Obama, at 48 percent even.
That result is unchanged from yesterday. However, since the Rasmussen poll aggregates data from the last three days, Obama must have polled slightly better than Romney in last's night's survey to offset the Republican's lead in the poll from three days ago.
Friday's ABC News/Washington Post poll was a light in the darkness for the Romney campaign, as it was the first national poll to show a Romney lead in five days.
Romney was 1 point up over Obama, 49 percent to 48 percent.
With the Gallup poll offline in the week before the election, Romney lost his main source of momentum, as Gallup's data had been the chief source of optimism for Republicans.
After the first presidential debate, Romney overtook Obama in the Gallup poll, and has remained there, often 5 or more points ahead, since then.
Most other polls showed a lead for Romney, though not as high as Gallup.
In the past week, all of those polls have shown a closing of the gap between the two candidates, and Obama has taken the lead in several.
The RealClearPolitics national polling average now shows Obama with the slightest of margins, 0.1 percent, over Romney.
Whether the Gallup poll returns in time for the election remains to be seen, but its unbroken line of data has been disrupted.
Still, a seven-day average like Gallup is less useful this close to the election, so starting from scratch might actually provide a more accurate picture of the candidates' chances on Tuesday.
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