Presidential Polls New Hampshire: Race Between Obama, Romney Still Close
Only seven days remain until Election Day on Nov. 6, and the candidates are using their final days of campaigning to target a handful of key swing states that are presently too close to call and that could determine the outcome of the election.
According to The Huffington Post's Electoral College map projection, which is based on an analysis of various nationwide and state by state polling data, shows five states in the toss up pile as of Tuesday: Colorado, Florida, New Hampshire, Ohio and Virginia.
Those states represent a total of 73 electoral votes — a hefty sum considering each candidate needs a total of 270 electoral votes to successfully win the election. That sum would be incredibly valuable to either candidate, based on The Huffington Post's current projection, which has President Barack Obama at 259 electoral votes and Mitt Romney at 206 votes.
In New Hampshire, only four electoral votes are up for grabs to the candidate who can carry the state on Nov. 6. That may be a small prize, but in a presidential election as tight as this one, every state counts on Election Day.
According to The Huffington Post's data analysis, Obama is ahead in New Hampshire by just a hair. The president is polling at 49 percent in that state, while his Republican challenger Romney is two percentage points behind him at 47 percent.
Data from national polling firm Rasmussen tells a slightly different story.
In that poll, Romney is ahead with support from 50 percent of Virginian voters surveyed, while Obama has support from 48 percent. Of the remaining respondents included in the poll, 1 percent plans to vote for a different candidate and 1 percent of voters are still undecided about how they will cast their ballot on Nov. 6.
