ON THE EVE OF THEIR SECOND DEBATE ROMNEY AND OBAMA IN VERY TIGHT RACE............

On this day before the second of the three Presidential Debates, tomorrow night in Boca Raton Florida between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney; with an ascendant Republican nominee decisively besting a listless debate performing Democratic incumbent; and an aggressively assertive Democratic Vice President doing what he had to do to out debate and narrowly prevail over the Republican Congressman challenging him in the aggregation of post debate polls; the latest Presidential preference polls released today show a very tight race between the two campaigns, with 22 days before General Election on November 6th.  The Romney surge following the First Debate has slowed, from a national poll average of going up by as much as a two percent advantage over Obama,  today the 'Real Clear Politics' online aggregation averaging of seven national polls, there Poll of Polls average is only a one tenth of one  percent lead for Romney at 47.4%; to Obama at 47.3%;.  With poll results taken between October 7 - 14, the Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll, Romney 49%; Obama 48%;  the Gallup Daily Tracking Poll, Romney 49%; Obama 47%;  the FOX News Poll, Romney 46%; Obama 45%;  the Monmouth Survey/USA/Braun Poll, Romney 47%; Obama 46%;  the Investors Daily Business/TIPP Tracking Poll, a Romney-Obama Tie, 47%; - 47%;  the Politico/George Washington University/Battleground Poll, Obama 49%; Romney 48%;  and the ABC News/Washington Post Poll released today, Obama 49%; Romney 46%; making up RCP'S Monday Average.  Swing State polls today show n emerging edge for Romney by 4 - 5 percentage points, with Romney gaining in the nine battleground States with Women voters to all but wipe-out his deficiency with them until the First Debate to now be in a Tie with the President, puts pressure on Romney to sustain his lead or for Obama to turnaround the response of Women as well as all likely voters, to retake the lead.  Tuesday night's Town Hall Meeting, and next Monday's Foreign Policy Debate, loom as the last major national event to convince and persuade the electorate of the acceptability and rationale for re-electing the President or replacing him.  What the current state of the race and polls do indicate is what I have continued to say most of this year, we are in store for a close, tight, contest to the finish and a narrow outcomel unless circumstances change in the next three weeks counting down to the General Election............Fr.  Troy