CHANGE: Pew poll: Romney erases eight-point deficit, now leads by four among likely voters.

Related: Was Romney’s Debate Win the Most Convincing in History? It Looks That Way. “Gallup’s latest survey shows just how overwhelmingly the American public thought Mitt Romney bested President Obama onstage in Denver last Wednesday: 72 percent of debate watchers gave the win to the GOP challenger with only 20 percent seeing the president as the winner. That 52-point gap was the largest the polling outfit has ever seen, topping even Bill Clinton’s 42-point margin over George H. W. Bush in 1992.”

Ah, yes, the once-popular President who turned out to be a one-termer when challenged by a successful governor during bad economic times.