PPP/DailyKos/SEIU Weekly Poll: Obama & Romney now about tied

[Tender Branson]

47-46 Obama

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45-49 unfavorable - Obama
39-47 unfavorable - Romney

45-50 Obama approval rating

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Are you very excited, somewhat excited, or not at all excited about voting in the 2012 elections?

58% very excited - Republicans
53% very excited - Democrats
49% very excited - Independents/Others

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Did President Obama's announcement on same-sex marriage change how you plan to vote for president in November, or not?

12% Yes
83% No

(Asked only of those who said 'yes' to Q11:) How did President Obama's announcement change how you plan to vote?

44% Was planning to vote for him; will now vote against him
14% Was planning to vote against him; will now vote for him
42% Changed your mind in some other way

http://dailykos.com/weeklypolling/2012/5/17

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[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Romney has consolidated Republicans and is probably leading with independents; as I also suspected, the SSM announcement didn't mean anything.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Well, around 6% of those surveyed will now vote against him. It's not huge, but it is a fair sized group. And for those people who "changed their mind in some other way," I'd suspect a lot of them were people who are now just not going to vote. And that's not great news for Obama.

[Kevin]

Nether candidate benefits but Obama probably has an edge.

I don't trust this poll though given it's partisan connections though; even though it may very well be correct. Therefore, I wouldn't put much weight into this poll at all.

[pbrower2a]

At this point a tie favors President Obama. The states that he loses he lose big in contrast (on the whole) to those that he wins narrowly -- but he wins more such states.