Poll says, Romney ahead of Barack Obama in US Presidential race
Washington: After his impressive performance during the last week’s debates, the Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has taken a lead of less than a per cent over US President Barack Obama, major national surveys have said.
The lead increases to four per cent in the Pew Research poll. However, the margins of all these polls come within the range of statistical error. As such experts are now saying this as a very close race. Whereas, the Obama Camp brushed off the poll results in the aftermath of the last week’s debate.
Meanwhile, some regional polls suggested that Romney has started narrowing the lead in some of the key battle ground States. One of them being the key battle ground State according to the latest CNN poll.
Obama now has an advantage over Romney by four percentage point, which comes within the sampling error. Before the debate Obama had a lead of 7-10 point advantage over the former governor of Massachusetts.
American Research Group poll for Ohio released on Tuesday gave Romney (48 per cent) a one per cent lead over Obama (47 per cent) among likely voters.
“Independent voters, suburban voters, and older voters are all evenly divided, indicating a close race right now,” says CNN Polling director Keating Holland.
“But that’s not a prediction of what will happen in November. With one in eight likely voters saying that they could change their minds between now and November, and several crucial debates still to come, there is every reason to expect the race to change in Ohio,” Holland said.
