In a battle over two must-win swing states with Election Day next week, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are still deadlocked in close races in Florida and Virginia.
As of Monday, Real Clear Politics is showing Romney holding a 1.2 percent lead in most polls in Florida, 49.1 percent to 47.9 percent. The new averages include two new polls in the Sunshine State released on Monday.
The first one, issued by We Ask America, projected that Romney had a slender 0.9 lead among 1,146 likely Floridian voters, 49.8 percent to 48.9 percent for Obama, with 1.3 percent of voters supporting a third-party candidate.
Another poll from Gravis Marketing, made up of 549 likely voters, showed Romney leading Obama by three percentage points, 50 percent to 47 percent. A majority of voters told Gravis Marketing pollsters that they did not approve of the president's job performance, 51 percent to 43 percent. The margin of error for the poll was 4.2 percent and higher for subgroups.
However, as the San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday via Bloomberg news services , a new CBS Times/New York Times/Quinnipiac University poll showed that Obama have a one point lead in Florida, 48 percent to 47 percent, although the same poll showed that he lead by nine points in September.
"After being subjected to what seems like a zillion dollars' worth of television ads and personal attention from the two candidates reminiscent of a high-school crush, the key swing states of Florida and Virginia are too close to call with the election only days away," Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac Polling Institute in Hamden, Connecticut, told the Chronicle.
Meanwhile, the race tightens in Virginia, with only a 0.5 percent advantage keeping Romney ahead of President Obama in Real Clear Politics polls. This includes a new CBS/New York Times/Quinnipiac poll showing Obama narrowly leading among 1,074 likely voters, 49 percent to 47 percent.
"Virginia voters under 35 continue to favor the president," the survey notes, "while Romney has made gains among voters between 35 and 64 - cutting down an eight-point Obama lead to three points among this age group. Virginia voters 65 and older support Romney by 13 points."
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