Only three days left until Election Day and it looks like President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney are going down to the wire in critical swing states Colorado and Pennsylvania.
As it stands among the recent polls, President Obama is holding edges in both states.
Real Clear Politics projects that Obama is ahead of Romney in Colorado by a one-point margin, 48.4 percent to 47.4 percent. This includes recent polls from We Ask America, The Denver Post, and CNN/ORC International released this week.
The We Ask America poll of 1,246 likely voters shows Obama to be ahead of Romney 50.1 percent to 46.7 percent. In the Denver poll of 695 likely voters, Obama overcame an earlier 48-47 deficit to take the lead, 47 percent to 45 percent, although the Post notes that the race remains a statistical tie. And in the CNN poll released Wednesday-polling 764 likely voters-Obama has pulled in front of Romney, 50 percent to 48 percent.
However, Republicans are leading in early voting in the state, the Huffington Post reported Wednesday, 38.2 percent to 35.2 percent. Huffington Post notes that Democrats have indicated that they are still hopeful for a late surge in voting on their side to tip the scales towards the blue column on Tuesday.
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In Pennsylvania, a state that Romney backers have hoped to tip in his favor by a late push of ads, Obama has held a slight, but consistent lead in most polls in the last two weeks by a 4.6 percent spread, 49.4 percent to 44.8 percent, according to Real Clear Politics projections.
The latest: a Franklin & Marshall College poll of 547 likely voters released Sunday that put Obama in the lead, 49 percent to 45 percent for Romney.
Yet the race has remained close enough that both campaigns have sent in big-time speakers to the state this week. For the Obama campaign, former President Bill Clinton-who electrified the audience at the 2012 Democratic National Convention-will be visiting the state this weekend, CNN reported late Saturday. The Romney campaign is sending in both Romney and running mate, Wisconsin's U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, to stump in Pennsylvania this weekend.
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