Swing State Polls: Latest Rasmussen Projects A Mitt Romney Lead
While millions of voters are currently flocking to their local polling places throughout the U.S., the latest pre-election results still indicate a tight race. For the most part, political forecasters are mainly projecting Obama to pull out a narrow victory over Romney in enough of the battleground states to put him over the 270 electoral votes required for re-election into the Oval Office.
However, the final installment of the Rasmussen Reports tracking poll begs to differ, as they projected Republican Mitt Romney to have the advantage over the President by one point. The respective survey, which came out on Tuesday morning, has the former Governor of Massachusetts with a 49 percent to 48 percent lead over his Democratic rival. Although the complete accuracy of the Rasmussen Reports can't be guaranteed, it did find Obama over Republican John McCain by a 6-point, 53-46 margin in the Presidential Election of 2008.
The latest political findings mentioned also indicate that Romney has a clear-cut advantage on the topic of the economy. Fifty percent of the voters stated that they'd have more faith in the Republican nominee to handle the matter as opposed to 47-percent who favored the President.
On the other hand, the HuffPost tracker, which combines all attainable national and statewide data, determined that if the polls stay similar to historical ranges of accuracy then Obama has a 90 percent probability of victory.
The debate over all of the polling data is just how accurate the swing state surveys will turn out. On a national level, 10 more pollsters also reported their final results. The final surveys, which include those that were rolled out over the weekend, all reveal the race falling within the standard sampling error range for a national survey, with the margins ranging from a 1 percent Romney advantage to a 4 point Obama edge.
