President Obama leads the first edition of the ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll of the presidential race nationally by a point. Obama gets 49 percent to Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s 48 percent in the poll, conducted Oct. 18-21. ABC/WaPo’s previous poll showed Obama up 3 points amongst likely voters, 49 percent to 46 percent.
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