Swing State Polls; Latest Poll Shows Obama Leading Romney with Majority of Support From Toss-Up States
With Election Day only a few days away, both President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney are rallying their support in the remaining swing states.
The latest polls show the Democrat incumbent in the lead over Republican challenger in a majority of the toss-up states.
Reporting from RealClearPolitics shows 11 toss-up states with a total of 146 electoral votes remaining. The latest leanings of the toss-up states show Romney leading in Florida (29 votes), North Carolina (15) and Virginia (13). The toss-up states currently leaning toward Obama are Ohio (18), Iowa (6), Michigan (16), Nevada (6), New Hampshire (4), Ohio (18), Pennsylvania (20), Wisconsin (10) and Colorado (9).
GOP nominee Mitt Romney holds a strong six point lead in the southern battleground of Florida, according to a new poll released Saturday. The latest Tampa Bay Times/Bay News 9/Miami Herald poll shows Romney with 51 percent support from likely voters to President Obama's 45 percent.
Romney also is leading in North Carolina by four percent and a small lead in Virginia, according to Policymic, which also has Obama with a one percent lead in Colorado and a two point lead in Iowa, Nevada, and New Hampshire.
In Ohio, the presidential candidates are tied with 49 percent of votes each, according to Rasmussen Reports on Friday. The telephone survey of 750 likely Ohio voters was conducted on Nov. 1 and also showed that 2 percent voted for a third-party candidate and 1 percent were undecided. Early last week, Romney has a slight lead over Obama in Ohio but recently they have been only within two percentage points of one another.
According to Politico, the nine swing-states, or "most competitive states," are Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Caroline, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Also revealed on Friday by Rasmussen was a 52 to 47 percent margin between the candidates in Michigan, with Obama in the lead. A telephone survey, also of 750 likely voters, was conducted on Nov. 1. One percent voted for a third-party candidate and 1 percent was undecided.
The race continues to be hot in the run-up to Election Day on Nov. 6, with both candidates in the final days of their respective campaigns.
