Presidential Polls 2012: Latest Rasmussen Poll Puts Romney in 2 Point Lead
The Rasmussen poll showed on Monday, that Mitt Romney leads President Obama 49 to 47 percent among likely voters.
The reports daily presidential tracking poll also showed on Monday that Romney has the support of 49 percent of voters nationwide, while the president earned the vote of 47 percent.
The other one percent refers to another candidate and the other two percent remains undecided.
According to the tracking poll, fifty-four percent of voters still repeal with the president's health care law. This matches the support for repeal found the week after the health care law was passed in March 2010.
Public opinion really contributes in this matter as eighty percent of voters believe that if Romney is elected and republicans take control of congress, the health care law will be repealed.
Rasmussen poll showed that the support for repeal is influenced by 50 percent of voters who believe that the cost of health care cost of the average American will go up as a result of the law.
Additional results of the tracking poll also include 50 percent of likely voters believe the law will increase the economy's deficit.
This shows that no one has faith that the law will lower health care costs or reduce the nation's deficit.
The new poll shows that in the race to the White House, an Electoral College projection now leaves the president with 237 Electoral Votes and Romney with 206. The number of votes needed to win the White House is 270.
Scott Rasmussen shared in his weekly newspaper column that "Wisconsin may be the new Ohio this year."
Rasmussen suggested that if Romney looses Ohio, he would have to win Wisconsin, in order to win the election and move into the White House.
This explains why all the presidential and vice-presidential candidates have spent a great amount of time in Wisconsin these past days.