CNN: OHIO - Obama 50% - Romney 47%

[TroyD]

(CNN) - With four days to go until the presidential election, a new poll indicates the race for arguably the most important battleground state remains very close.

According to a CNN/ORC International survey released Friday, President Barack Obama holds a three point advantage over Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the contest for Ohio's much fought over 18 electoral votes.

Fifty-percent of likely voters questioned in the poll say they are backing the president, with 47% supporting the former Massachusetts governor. Obama's three-point edge is within the survey's sampling error. The survey was conducted Tuesday through Thursday. The poll's release comes on the same day that the president holds three campaign events and Romney holds two events in Ohio.

"The race in the Buckeye State has remained essentially the same throughout October, with all three CNN/ORC polls taken in October showing President Obama at 50%-51% and all three showing Governor Romney at 46%-47%," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/02/cnn-poll-obama-50-romney-47-in-ohio/

[geek tragedy]

1. Another Wolf Blitzer "tie" nt

[martin061360]

2. 50% is good news

51% is the clincher

[VirginiaTarheel]

4. if a third party candidates gets more than .5%, 50 percent will do it

[VirginiaTarheel]

3. Look at the Party breakdown (3+ / 0-) The rethugs cant complain now. It's pretty evenly split.

[libdem4life]

8. Great news. Have to challenge "the rethugs can't complain now." The statistics of that aberration

equal to a Snowball's Chance in Hell!!!!

[BeyondGeography]

5. Firewall is firewalling

Except VA and FL could be firewalls, too.

Mitt Romney's map is the suck.

[NJRick1006]

6. Can't wait until Tuesday Evening

I can't wait until Tuesday Evening at around 10:30 - 11:00 est, when the President reaches the magic number of 270 Electoral Votes. I may even "unblock" my parental controls on Faux News to watch them implode.

[Faith9326]

7. CNN needs to get the hell out of my state

They have their reporters spread across Ohio. We're going for Obama. Get over it.

[TroyD]

9. CNN discussed the possibility of the Ohio results not being resolved on election night

Because of the provisional and absentee ballots etc. and the other issues going on in the state.

This is what happens when you allow partisan political officials like the Secretary of State to still have control over the elections in the year 2012.

[VirginiaTarheel]

10. It is not about one poll. It is about the chorus of polls

Ohio has been polled this week more than any other state in the history of the nation. And except for one Monday Ras outlier, Romney has not been ahead in one poll, tied in just one Ras poll today. That speaks volumes. It's the volume of polls done this week in Ohio that speaks volumes.

[TroyD]

11. Well, technically I think Romney was also ahead in a Wenzell poll for Ohio

But yes, it's absolutely been very consistent in that Obama has been ahead in the huge, overwhelmingly majority of Ohio polls this year.

Only question is though is whether all the messing around with the ballots by Secretary of State John Husted will result in numbers that are too much of a mess to work out right away.

Do you think those fears are exaggerated, or is there a possibility we won't know the results for several days after November 6?