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Jason Reed / REUTERS
President Barack Obama gives a thumbs up as he participates in a campaign rally in Lima, Ohio, Nov. 2, 2012.
Three days until Election Day, President Barack Obama maintains his lead in the key battleground state of Ohio and is locked in a close contest with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in Florida, according to new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls.
In Ohio, Obama holds a six-point advantage over Romney among likely voters, 51 percent to 45 percent, which is unchanged from last month’s poll in the Buckeye State.
And in Florida, the president gets support from 49 percent of likely voters, while his GOP challenger gets 47 percent. Those numbers are virtually identical to the ones from October, when it was Obama 48 percent, Romney 47 percent.
Both states are two of the biggest prizes in Tuesday’s presidential contest. An Obama victory in Ohio, which awards 18 electoral votes, would put him tantalizingly close to getting to the 270 electoral votes needed to win a second term.
President Barack Obama campaigns in Lima, Ohio as he rallies supporters in key states just before the election.
But an Obama loss in the Buckeye State – and a Romney win – would place a hole in the president’s Midwest firewall.
Meanwhile, Florida, which awards 29 electoral votes, is a must-win state for Romney. A Republican loss there would push Obama past 270 electoral votes – even if the president lost every other battleground state in NBC’s current map.
Obama ahead with early voters
As with the recent NBC/WSJ/Marist polls of Iowa and Wisconsin, Obama is benefitting from early voters in Ohio and Florida.
In the Sunshine State, 63 percent say they have already voted or plan to do so before Election Day, and Obama is winning them, 53 percent to 46 percent. But Romney is ahead among Election Day voters in Florida, 52 percent to 40 percent.
In Ohio, 35 percent say they have already voted or plan to do so, and Obama is leading them, 62 percent to 36 percent. Yet Romney is up among Election Day voters in the Buckeye State, 52 percent to 42 percent.
Strong approval for the president’s handling of Sandy
The polls were conducted after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast, and seven in 10 likely voters in Florida and Ohio approve of the president’s job in handling the hurricane and its aftermath.
“The response was overwhelmingly positive, and that was occurring across party lines,” says Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.
On handling the economy
Meanwhile, Romney has a slight advantage over Obama in Florida when it comes to which candidate would better handle the economy – 48 percent pick Romney and 46 percent back Obama.
GOP candidate Mitt Romney speaks to supporters in Chester, Ohio as he campaigns in key swing states ahead of the election.
But those numbers are reversed in Ohio, where 48 percent believe Obama would better handle the economy and 46 percent side with Romney.
On party ID
In these surveys, Democrats enjoy a nine-point party-identification advantage in Ohio and a two-point edge in Florida. Republicans have argued that a nine-point advantage is too large in this current political environment; it was eight points in the Buckeye State during Obama’s decisive 2008 victory.
If you cut that party ID advantage in half, Obama’s six-point lead in Ohio is reduced to three points.
Other numbers in the poll
Obama’s job-approval rating among likely voters stands at 48 percent in Florida and 50 percent in Ohio.
Reuters, Getty Images
In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters.
In Ohio’s Senate contest, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown leads Republican Josh Mandel by five points among likely voters, 50 percent to 45 percent.
And in Florida’s Senate contest, Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson leads Republican Connie Mack by nine, 52 percent to 43 percent.
The NBC/WSJ/Marist poll of Florida was conducted Oct. 30-Nov. 1 of 1,545 likely voters, and it has a margin of error of plus-minus 2.5 percentage points.
And the survey of Ohio was conducted Oct. 31-Nov.1 of 971 likely voters, and it has a margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points.
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MSNBC, THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS (Not a legit news agency) runs a story on Sat. about Benghazi. A Saturday 3 days before an election when no other news organization has time to respond w/ investigative journalism....46 days after questions arise.
THIS amounts to nothing more that PROPAGANDA by a political party that mirrors Nazi Germany 1939.
This piece of SH#T news organization would tell the public the moon is orange if the anointed one told them too.
We know the simple truth about Benghazi..
AMERICANS DIED,THE NATION CRIED,AND OBAMA LIED.
MSNBC, THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS (Not a legit news agency) runs a story on Sat. about Benghazi. A Saturday 3 days before an election when no other news organization has time to respond w/ investigative journalism....46 days after questions arise.
THIS amounts to nothing more that PROPAGANDA by a political party that mirrors Nazi Germany 1939.
This piece of SH#T news organization would tell the public the moon is orange if the anointed one told them too.
We know the simple truth about Benghazi..
AMERICANS DIED,THE NATION CRIED,AND OBAMA LIED.
MSNBC, THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS (Not a legit news agency) runs a story on Sat. about Benghazi. A Saturday 3 days before an election when no other news organization has time to respond w/ investigative journalism....46 days after questions arise.
THIS amounts to nothing more that PROPAGANDA by a political party that mirrors Nazi Germany 1939.
This piece of SH#T news organization would tell the public the moon is orange if the anointed one told them too.
We know the simple truth about Benghazi..
AMERICANS DIED,THE NATION CRIED,AND OBAMA LIED.
Lets look at your statement:
1 - MSNBC does support Obama. However, FoxNews does the same for Romney.
2- Nothing in the USA compares to Nazi Germany. This comment was way out of line.
3- see point #1.
4- Yes, Americans died and yes, we cried. However, what is your proof that Obama lied? I would like to see this proof if you have it.
Proof AZ?
Following the attack on the US Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi, administration spokespersons, including White House spokesman Jay Carney, maintained for two weeks that the attacks likely were a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim film. They offered no evidence to support that contention. Not the slightest shred of evidence ever indicated a spontaneous protest The attack started in late evening and went on to 5 in the morning. Not a single report or photograph indicated protestors with the usual crude signs. Just well armed terrorists with heavy weapons and clear pre-planning.
And yet Obama and his Administration continued to insist it was a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim film. They fabricated that story out of thin air just to cover up the fact that Obama had made a catastrophic error so serious that it borders on treason.
They are missing 10 Obama votes in Miami Florida as all of my family and I support Obama.
My gosh, you can count, can't you? Imagine that....
who the hell do you dumb f#cks think is going to create a path out of this recession...the people with their hand out.
these idiots are basically chopping the bottom out of the boat that has floated this counbtry since its existence.
keep on...it's going to be funny to watch your miserable asses suffer for the next 4 years..
hahahahahahahahahaha!
MSNBC, THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS (Not a legit news agency) runs a story on Sat. about Benghazi. A Saturday 3 days before an election when no other news organization has time to respond w/ investigative journalism....46 days after questions arise.
THIS amounts to nothing more that PROPAGANDA by a political party that mirrors Nazi Germany 1939.
This piece of SH#T news organization would tell the public the moon is orange if the anointed one told them too.
We know the simple truth about Benghazi..
AMERICANS DIED,THE NATION CRIED,AND OBAMA LIED.
GOOD ONE
Dunt you think your ohio poll is tainted to your idealogue network-Is it is good as the Libya whitewash NBC---NBC NAIVE BAMA CLONES=NBC
The hand-outers (Democrats) are breaking this country. Tha last 4 years is proof.
No one, with their hand out is getting any more.
Obama should be ashamed taking (stealing) from those that WORK, and giving it to those that DON'T work or PAY TAXES, who are government-dependant-babies-blood-sucking-Democrats.
Romney/Ryan 2012 - 2016: Their First 4 Years
Hey Onion-Face. Get a grip. The Red States are the ones receiving more public assistance and food stamps than the blue states, look it up. Oh and Red states receive more of the business, bank and corporate welfare also.
Obama/Biden 2012 4 More Years and no Obstructionist Tea Party, BoneHead, Ryan, or McConnell.
Spot666-666-
Get over it. Obama is a complete FAILURE! You have gotten used to holding that hand out, right?
MSNBC, THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS (Not a legit news agency) runs a story on Sat. about Benghazi. A Saturday 3 days before an election when no other news organization has time to respond w/ investigative journalism....46 days after questions arise.
THIS amounts to nothing more that PROPAGANDA by a political party that mirrors Nazi Germany 1939.
This piece of SH#T news organization would tell the public the moon is orange if the anointed one told them too.
We know the simple truth about Benghazi..
AMERICANS DIED,THE NATION CRIED,AND OBAMA LIED.
Six times with the same post. How about you answer my question above?
Bush lied 100,000 innocent people died and now Romney wants to be Bush II by starting a war with Iran.
You hiding in a bunker Prog.1? If and when they get nuclear arms, what prevents them from causing more destruction? We need to have a strong World Leader, and not a lieing coverup of inadequecies. We don't need war, because we have proven our abilities, but we do need to let them know that it is a VERY real possibilty! Your current President proves his cowardness everytime he speaks to the world community, and has shown he's a liar and not be trusted!
Keep dreaming! Barry is going home after 4 failed years!
I agree with Mark...
Obama has done NOTHING for Ohio. NOTHING! And he provided high unemployment, deficits as well.
Good-Bye Romney and Ryan. Good-Bye Obstructionist Tea Party. Good-Bye Bonehead, Ryan and McConnell
Obama/Biden 2012 and 4 More Years For President Obama.
Spot666-666-
I am sure you have dreams, nightly, of holding your hand out to Obama, kneeling and bowing down to your Barrack Hussien Obama Muslim king. Right?
Oh poor onionface, I truly hope you do not call yourself a christian, with all that hate mongering and name calling. Hurts to know your candidates are going back home. LMAO
Just listened to both candidates give their closing arguments. Obama wants to crush the middle class by continuing to support public sector unions and government regulators. Romney wants to help the middle class get jobs that their families can live on. Obama wants to shut down coal, oil and natural gas. Romeny wants to help us become energy independent. Obama is for what hasn't worked and Romney is for what has made America great.
Luke-
You are right on. Publis sector unions are the blood-suckers of any company. These unions drag the company down, slowly, until it goes bankrupt. I know, I was forced to become a Union member at a company years ago. That company is NOW OUT OF BUSINESS, and NEVER RECOVERED. Sounds just like Obama.
I knew their was intelligent life on this planet. Thank You both! Love You guys!
People wake up what has Obama done in the 4 years in office with 2 of those with the Congress both sides. Unemploment at 7.9 Libya a mess our morals downgraded. People against one another no one can compermise to get this country going. What will it take does America really want a goverment like France.
You, my little obama leg humping shebitch, are completely delusional,(proven leader) ha!!!! !!!!!
second term, Not likely at all.... .....
And you might as well cut the crrrrRapfest cause you are choking on your popcorn.... .....
I've seen the internals for the so called Presidebt Obama campaign they are sh1t for barry and the Senate. So really, I LOL at you.... .....
"America NEEDS a proven leader".... ..... Correct, that Man is "in 4 days elected by 301+ electoral votes"
President-elect Willard Mitt Romney.... ..... And on January 20th 2013 POTUS 45.... .....
UN-employment will drop to 7.3% or less by inauguration day one year from election day it will be below 6 percent.... .....
Harry Reid will be marginalized in to obscurity by a, Republican lead Senate>.... .....
The Domestic energy Renaissance will be in full swing, Americans will be prosperous and happy President Romney will be at or above 70% Job approval rating.... .....
But, You and your list of fiends will still be bruxing your teeth on this vine. (LOOSERS) sorry no conservative audience (you just won't be that entertaining, anymore) But, hey I here that the comedy clubs need a big red nose and floppy shoes "Act" so you will fit lefty, in just fine. Don't worry that red hair will grow that black dye out fast k ok, .... ..... Also, no mo obama phones or free rides "you'll just have to conform to the right norm" 45
Please, try not to start drinking again, ok.... ..... btw we have met, but you'll never guess? in a million, who I am doll.... ..... say good morning ?
ITOLDYOUSO
Go Forty Five 2012
let's face it boldly, It is what American's Want....
Calling a woman a bitch oh that is really cool. No wonder Americans don't listen to you tea bags . President Obama 4 more years. Good-bye Tea Party obstructionists. Good-bye Bonehead, Ryan, and McConnell.
Convenient-
Exactly. Obama supporters need to prepare for the loss of the election by Obama. The liberals are blindly supporting him while continuosly holding their hands out. Hoplessly.
@Spot666-666-
Again, I say... in your wettest of wet dreams.
Romney/Ryan 2012 - 2016: Their First 4 Years
Dream on OnionFace, Romney and Ryan is dead in the water you might say. LMAO
Spot666-666
In your wetter dreams.
LMAOFFF at you. You will see, and you will regret it. Mark my words.... right here, right now. Let me ask---are you "black", or on social welfare programs? Tell the truth (or can you?). I don't really care and won't be looking back, but you can ansewr it for everyone else and for yourself. Because Obama is losing. He's a failure, and that's what he's good at..... and blaming others and crying and balling his eyes out. A one-term man. A failure.
Romney 2012 - 2016: The First 4 Years
Every thing you are saying points to your own inner misguided fears!You need to realise this as do so many of the people who have some of these similar inner misguided fears! Look within yourself and be honest to yourself you can help yourself if you do!
@dale666-666
And you can help yourself if you look inward at your own misguided fears. What is your inner, misguided fears? You can tell us right here, please do say what you think will happen (your inner fears, right?). Enlighten us all.
OnionFace: I do have inner and misguided fears! I try to see them for what they are so I can move away from them. I thought about not saying that to you, then decided to do it anyway! You are an important person as is most, so I thought that by telling you that it might help you to not take things so personable. This President has tried to do the right thing for the country! If you think about what he was up against the first day in office you will come to the same conclusion, that is if you can be honest with yourself!
No Democrat is always right and No Republican is always right! The truth will set you free! no matter Dem or Re pub! Lets all work together for the good of all!
CLYB, from your mouth to GODS ear....PLEEEEASE! I see the followers Obama has! OF, is giving a piece of his brilliant mind to them now...Gooo OF!
Convenient: This has got to be one of the most delusional comments I have read!You are trapped in your own mind! Seek help" After the election you will be able to use the results as A guide to your misguided delusions! Take full advantage of the results you need every scrap of 20 20 vision you will get to get the help you need to start to repair your thinking process!
"Obama is a "failure," Obama is a "loser," duuuuhh"
Barack Obama rose from a poor, fatherless upbringing and troubled youth to become President of the USA. He is the very embodiement of the American dream. He is a moral and just man who honestly wants to help his people. His community service that you idiots like to denigrate him for is just another feather in his cap and even more reason to respect and admire the man.
Duh! You are fooled. Brianwashed.
Duh, Obmama wants to help his country, duh. SO where (duh) has he been successful with this yet? Duh?
You are a complete fool.
Romney 2012 - 2016: The First 4 Years
RESPECT?????? Noone Gives You respect....YOU EARN IT. Now You know why Obama gets nown.....from anyone with at least a little grey matter....I do not always double down on failurs, but when I do....I vote for Obama....stay jobless My friend.
Moral and Just. Obama? Are you nuts? Cocaine and marijuana user. Moral? hahahahahahahahahaha. Tell that to the parents of the 4 dead in the Libyan Massacre.
Obama is the epitomy of the way America works. But now he is the puppet that is being used to change and abolish that way of life. They have brainwashed him(his Pastor who hates whites), they have groomed him(his Muslim ties to Islamic idealists), and educated him(his rich socialist benefactors). And they have put him to work to bring this great country to its knees, last 4 yrs is obvious PROOF!
It is clear that Obama is winning Ohio, He is ahead in Florida, This election is all but over The Dem's will take the white house! Now concentrate on putting people in the congress who will work with the country! We are out of this great recession, now it is time to rebuild America! It is time for both parties to work together no matter who is in the white house!
Oh, right. Rebuild America. LOL. You are being laughed at. And you are blind. Rebuild is the only way to go after 4 years of failures. 4 more will completely put us in 3rd-world status just where Obama wants it to be.
Even the best-case scenario will still leave the republicans with veto power through the filibuster. Even a good number of so called "democrats" are nothing but republican spies who have infiltrated their ranks. Looks like another 4 years of slower than should be growth, with Executive Order the only tool Obama has to move things forward. At least this time he knows that reaching out to the traitorous fascist scum is a pointless waste of time.
2500 new regs in place since Obama took office- how do you think if he is re-elected things will change- you are blind to govt red tape
Leroy Brown; I'm thinking, that many Republicans, are starting to realise that blocking everything is not working in their favor! I'm being optimistic in this thinking but I see some Republicans starting to lean more toward the middle, like THE Governor OF New Jersey and Senator Brown! They both made public statements indicating that they are willing to work with the Democrats! We need all of our leaders to work together for the good of the country! Senator Brown , has even stated that he will not sign a pledge to not raise taxes!
Leroy, I believe President Obama said to the Republicans "go to the back of the bus" we won the election. Yeah...those damn obstructionists! Obama is no leader.
Watt75: I think the entire country was telling the Republicans to take their hands off the steering wheel at that time! And everyone would feel safer if they did not sit in the front seat until they learned how to drive!
Obama = the other dark meat...lol
there is NO WAY this inept president will get re-elected, heck, Massachusetts will finally become a RED state, but nobody is thinking of that....hahahaha
Massachusetts can't stand Romney, and it is his home state. I wonder why? How will it become a red state? Nobody is thinking of that because it is not going to happen.
OMG, I can't stop laughing when Repugs start to state Rasmussen "and others". What others, LOL ? There is not ONE that has a Romney lead. Even Rasmussen (historically Republican leaning) has it an absolute deadlock nationally, but conceded the electoral advantage. Math has been especially unkind to the GOP. It ruins their tax plans, and economic / budget promises, and absolutely rips their polling apart. Pulling numbers out of your a** is not a poll, nor is it a sound basis to sell your tax scheme. I almost expect the wing nuts in the GOP to add a plank that relegates math to the same fate as other quaint subjects like global warming and evolution. Perhaps the whack jobs in Texas will even remove math from textbooks ? Your defeat is coming, and gaining momentum. Florida's numbers surely have to have surprised the Romney campaign. The dam is beginning to burst, and there is nobody to plug all the places that have sprung leaks. Maybe W could stop in there for you on his way back from his trip to the Caymans where he was showing the 1% how to take their money and investments out of the United States. The "patriots" of 2004 appear to be anything but. The Romney campaign is just re-hashed "W" and now most people are beginning to see it.
NBC SAYS.....does anyone care what NBC< CBS< ABC< CNN< and the rest of the bought and payed for media thunk??? They have lied for this Man ever since He proved He KNOWS NOTHING...The latess is His VP who stated yesterday that "....for 4 years HE HAS NEVER LIKED BEING OBAMAS VP"...but the best part where the idiots that cheered Him....says a lot about both of them.
Don't forget FoxNews.
Union members caught stealing Romney signs
People casting votes for Romney finding out the votes are actually going to Obama
Obama's name on ballot in a larger font than Romney's.
That tells you all you need to know about the despicable libs.
Hey Glorya, where did you hear all this on the FOX NEWS???? I haven't heard the first thing about that, but since you bring it up, how about in NC where you can't vote straight ticket Democrat and it count for Obama? One has to vote for Obama separately, that's unheard of. How about FLORIDA where the governor has CUT early voting by nearly half, causing HUGE lines and delays because the ballots are nearly ten pages long? How about the so called "Poll Watchers" who are being trained to intimidate voters at the Polls? The list goes on and on against the Part of the Christians.. the Republicans.. the most obstructionist Party EVER...
Show your tax returns Romney, you lying piece of crap!
Tell the truth about Benghazi Obama, you lying piece of crap!
FOUR men died in Benghazi, four... HOW many died in Iraq??HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, and Bush went to that conflict on false data and lies... When will the Country admit that? Benghazi is nothing more than a DOG WHISTLE for the RIGHT!!!! Nothing more!
larry the lies exists only in your mind. People like you complain that the media will not report the embassy death cover-up. Can you imagine the news agencies trying to report on something that exists only in the minds of certain republicans? It would be like a dop chasing ite own tail.
It's called social bias, and once a person has it toward a certain topic, NOTHING can reach through the fog and expose the truth to them. The Christian Right is particularly vulnerable to it, probably because of the imbedded mind washing of religion.
One trillion last year spent on just Welfare says all you need to know about how we are going 'Forward" and we ain't too far from going over the cliff- all parachutes for the event will be made in China
freelunch you would rather those trillons be spent on wars to kill innocent people right? I would rather have the money burned than spent it on killing innocent people that make more enemies for this country. How much will Romney's war with Iran cost and how will it be paid for? Hint credit card.
Romney's war with Iran? He's not the President... Obama doer of nothing, responsibility for nothing, divider, big talker, little doer...
Yep that free lunch for all the corporate welfare banks, businesses, and corporations. Republicans and Tea Party loves that crap. Obama 2012.
Why is it that in a VERY hard economic times, do people always harp on the social programs, when in fact we are spending more on defense, not counting the actual cost of the war in Afghanistan, than the next ten nations of the world COMBINED.... Where is the "outrage" over the waste and spending on defense? Where is the fake indignation when two unfunded wars have pushed this country into the worst financial crisis since the 1920's?
spot666666-666-
In your wettest dreams. Which hand do you use to hold out for Obama's social programs? The left one?
In the last few days before the election you can almost feel the desperation by the Rethuglicans. Even reading these comments it's obvious. Why on earth would anyone vote for a person who fails not only as a politician but as a human being. I'll give Romney credit for one thing.He knows how to make money,but the way he does it is another story. There is just something unamerican about buying companies,closing them down,taking peoples jobs,stealing their pensions and throwing them under the bus just to line his pockets. And lets not forget shipping jobs to China.Sensata ring a bell. This is not who I want representing this country, and no real American should either.He is laughing at you all the way to the bank,whether that bank be in the Cayman Islands or Switzerland.
There is something unamerican about paying no tax, expecting the government to support you by taxing those with incentive...
It will be close but a win for Obama and progress for the country. The country will not be taken back 30 yeaars in the past to a time before Roe vs. Wade.
Prog, Telling woman that Romney wants to take away their choices is nothing but a scare tactic. As a woman I am more concerned with my children being strapped with all this debt. I am worried that they will not grow up in the America I grew up with. I am concerned that the "American Dream" is being destroyed by the left because in the last 4 years Obama has tried to make it shameful to be succesful. I am a happy successful, self-sufficient woman and liberals hate me.