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By Mark Blumenthal
WASHINGTON -- With the first of the nominating conventions less than a week away, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll adds more evidence that the choice of Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney's running mate has not been a "game changer" in the 2012 race for the White House.
The latest poll of 1000 registered voters nationwide surveyed from Aug. 16 to 20 found President Barack Obama with a narrow four percentage point lead (48 to 44 percent) over presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney. That's slightly narrower than their last poll in July, which showed Obama leading by six points (49 to 43 percent). Support for each candidate in the newest survey fell within the margin of sampling error.
That new result squares with the HuffPost pollster polling chart, based on all available public polls, which shows no significant change in the Obama-Romney race since the Spring.
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