In key swing states across the country, voters are evenly split in their preference between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, while they prefer the president over the other Republican candidates, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll Monday.
In 12 swing states, Obama and Romney are neck and neck in a general election match-up, 47 to 48 percent, the poll found. Meanwhile, the president leads Newt Gingrich by 14-percentage points, 54 to 40 percent; Ron Paul by 7-percentage points, 50 to 43 percent; and Rick Santorum also by 7-percentage points, 51 to 44 percent.
Continue ReadingThe list of the swing states include Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
The swing state match-ups are generally similar to national preferences ? Obama and Romney are tied at 48 percent, whereas Obama leads Gingrich 53 to 41 percent and Santorum 51 to 43 percent. Paul does slightly better nationally than in the swing states against the president, with Obama leading slightly 49 to 46 percent.
Obama and Romney were closely matched in the previous two swing state polls. In the last survey taken in late November and early December, the president trailed the GOP candidate by 5-percentage points, 43 to 48 percent; in an October poll, the two were virtually tied, 46 to 47 percent.
The USA Today/Gallup poll was conducted Jan. 24-28 among 737 registered voters living in the 12 states listed above, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
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