A poll by FNC just came out, showing Barack Obama up by seven points over Mitt Romney, 46 percent to 39 percent.

Although this appears to be an outlier (only an Associated Press poll, recently, showed a similar margin; eight points, to be exact), with the RealClearPolitics average being just 2.5 points in favor of Barack Obama, it does seem instructive in this one regard: Very many people on the left are utterly phobic about all things Fox--it just cannot be trusted, they loudly declare--so one has to wonder how they might explain this.

Oh, here is a link to the RCP average of polls: RealClearPolitics - Election 2012 - General Election: Romney vs. Obama