Romney +5 in 12-State Battleground Poll — USA Today/Gallup
Mitt Romney holds a 5-point lead, 51 to 46, among the Battleground States identified by USA Today which include my ten plus North Carolina and New Mexico.
The states in USA Today’s survey are: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. This is huge for Romney because the only true red state is North Carolins and it is balanced by New Mexico’s inclusion. So no state is unnecessarily skewing the results one way of the other and if anything the inclusion of Michigan and Pennsylvania unnecessarily help Obama. The most surprising takeaway is Romney support among the women surveyed was dead even at 48 a piece. If it is anywhere near that on election day, look for a blowout with Romney carrying all of the above mentioned states:
Mitt Romney leads President Obama by five percentage points among likely voters in the nation’s top battlegrounds, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, and he has growing enthusiasm among women to thank. As the presidential campaign heads into its final weeks, the survey of voters in 12 crucial swing states finds female voters much more engaged in the election and increasingly concerned about the deficit and debt issues that favor Romney. The Republican nominee now ties the president among women who are likely voters, 48%-48%, while he leads by 12 points among men.
Who knew the wheels could come off like this?
2 comments:
Dude, you're a sophisticated political analyst - why you would even follow polls this close to an election is beyond me?
This race was decided the moment Chris Christie didn't run.
Maybe because I've learned how to read them over the roughly 20 years I've been doing this?
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