Swing states poll: Romney, Gingrich lead Obama
Republican presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich leaves a meeting with Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York City. Democrats are hoping to run against Gingrich, who is leading the GOP race in the most recent polls.
Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are both ahead of President Obama in key swing states, a USA Today/Gallup poll released Tuesday showed.
According to CBS News, Romney leads Obama by 5 percentage points, 48 to 43, in a survey of voters in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
More than six in 10 Republicans are enthusiastic about voting in the presidential elections next year, as compared to fewer than half of Democrats.
In 2008, Obama beat John McCain by 53 to 46 percent among voters in these key states. The new poll shows that Obama runs slightly behind his Republican contenders in hypothetical 2012 match-ups, the Washington Post reported.
These 12 states are incredibly important in next year's election.
According to New York Magazine, "only a handful of states really matter in the 2012 presidential race. And as of now, those all-important swing states don't look to promising for President Obama."
Consider the math: In 2008, when Obama carried the swing states by 8 percentage points, Democrats there swamped Republicans in party identification by 11 points. Now, that partisan edge has tightened to a statistically insignificant 2 points.
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