Projections show Obama with a significant lead based on the Electoral College voting system. President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are still largely neck and neck in the race for the White House, according to nationwide polling data, but projections for how the Electoral College map will shake out on Election Day tell a different story.

David Letterman regularly cracks jokes on his "Late Show," but on Oct. 23 he turned very serious and talked on camera about how disappointed he is with President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

Romney has closed a 16-point gap between himself and the president among female voters. Mitt Romney is becoming more and more of a ladies man - at least in the case of the presidential election.

With a little more than one week before Election Day, a handful of swing states are quickly taking center stage in the presidential race and are likely to become the deciding factor in who wins the White House. Most of those states are still hotly contested and could go to either President Barack Obama or Republican nominee Mitt Romney on Nov. 6.