Washington Post polls: OHIO (Obama +8), FLORIDA (Obama +4)

[TroyD]

Tuesday, September 25

President Obama has grabbed a significant lead over Mitt Romney in Ohio and holds a slender edge in Florida, according to two new polls by the Washington Post that indicate there are fresh hurdles in the way of the Republican nominee’s best route to victory in the Electoral College.

Among likely voters, Obama is ahead of Romney in Ohio by 52 to 44 percent. In Florida, the president is up 51 to 47 percent, a numerical but not statistically significant edge. Among all registered Florida voters, Obama is up nine percentage points.

The new numbers come one week after a Washington Post poll in Virginia showing Obama with a clear lead there. More than half of all money spent in the campaign has focused on these three states, and many analysts say Romney has to win two of the three to capture the White House.

The past few weeks have been difficult for the Romney campaign, and the nominee’s advisers vowed to hit the reset button this week. But with the first debate scheduled for Oct. 3, the Romney is under new pressure to get his campaign refocused.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/washington-post-poll-obama-lead-in-ohio-edge-in-fla-narrow-romneys-path-to-victory/2012/09/25/aba76e22-068c-11e2-afff-d6c7f20a83bf_story.html

[Botany]

1. Romney smirking after the attack on embassy in Libya

And it will only get worse.

[NCLefty]

2. If only they had a hot wedge issue and thongs of angry church voters like in 2004.

Never forget! :p

[DCBob]

3. 1-2 punch!

Ohio is looking very good.

[TroyD]

4. Gravis has a suspicious poll out for OHIO today

Showing Obama only (+1) in Ohio, and giving the same (+1) lead to Sherrod Brown.

So it looks like they are not giving up on trying to shape the polling narrative for Ohio just yet.

[Blue Yorker]

5. Gravis 1) Is owned Republican donor 2) Polls no cell phones

Deadly combination.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021265606

[smorkingapple]

6. Yeah ignore them. The fact that Obama is in the lead there is not a good sign for Romney

Of course you can always go to unskewedpolls.com to see the real state of the race

That's a joke by the way

[WI_DEM]

7. Ohio is looking good--if this continues (fingers crossed) he could win Ohio by

a bigger margin than in 2008.