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Obama, Romney in final blitz to sway voters
in tied race
Monday November 05, 2012 07:25:23 PM,
Arun Kumar,
IANS
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Washington: President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney Monday headed
for a final blitz in battleground states to swing voters their way
ahead of Tuesday's election that polls show destined for a photo
finish.
Most polls show the two presidential contenders locked in a close
contest too close for comfort though Obama holds a small edge in
more battleground states than Romney. But most of those leads are
well within the polls' sampling errors.
In a final 24 hours, Obama and Romney and their key campaigners --
including their wives and the vice presidential candidates -- are
scheduled to make stops in Ohio, Iowa, Florida, Virginia,
Colorado, Wisconsin, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and New
Hampshire.
Early Monday, Obama, his voice raspy from weekend campaigning,
wrapped up a campaign stop at a community college in Aurora,
Colorado, painting the election as a choice between policies that
have moved America out of the depths of recession and ones that
got it into one in the first place.
Romney used his campaign stops Sunday to hammer at Obama's record,
particularly on the economy, saying it didn't warrant returning
him to Washington, CNN reported.
The mad dash for votes comes as national polls show the race is
tied.
A new CNN poll showed 49 percent support for Obama and 49 percent
for Romney. A Politico/George Washington University survey has it
tied at 48 percent.
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll indicates Obama at 48 percent
and Romney at 47 percent and the latest ABC News/Washington Post
tracking poll puts Obama at 49 percent and Romney at 48 percent.
However, a Pew Research Centre national poll released Sunday
showed Obama with a three point 50 percent to 47 percent edge over
Romney - his largest advantage among other national polls released
since Saturday.
A Pew survey released a week ago, conducted before superstorm
Sandy hit the East Coast Monday, showed an even tighter race with
both candidates receiving 47 percent support from likely voters.
The average of polls compiled by influential poll watching
website, the RealClearPolitics gave Obama a lead of 0.5 percent in
the popular vote - 47.8 percent to 47.3 percent listing 11 states
as toss-ups, totalling 146 electoral votes in the 538-vote
Electoral College - which will decide the race.
Among presumably solid states, Obama leads Romney by only 201
electoral votes to 191, according to RCP -- it takes 270 to win
the White House.
Going by the current polls, Politico, another influential site
focused on politics, suggests Obama would win the Electoral
College by 290-248.
FiveThirtyEight, the election forecasting blog of the New York
Times has upped the chances of Obama to 85.5 percent giving him a
306.4 to 231.8 edge over Romney with a clear 50.5 percent popular
vote nationally.
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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