The U.S. President and Democratic candidate for re-election, Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are tied in voting intentions just two days after the first televised debate between the two, according to a CNN poll released today.

If elections were held today in the U.S., 50% of likely voters would support Obama and 47% for Romney, Republican presidential hopeful, resulting in a statistical tie given the margin of error for the survey is + / – 3.5 percentage points. These figures suggest that “any boost” received by Obama after the Democratic convention in early September in Charlotte “faded, as expected,” he said on CNN polling director Keating Holland.

This survey, which was released 48 hours before the first debate between the two candidates at the University of Denver (Colorado), interviewed 1,013 adults across the country from 28 to 30 September. In domestic policy issues to focus the debate on Wednesday, Romney is ahead in relation to unemployment and public deficits, while Obama leads in educational, health and taxation, according to CNN.