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(Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney remain essentially tied in the race for the White House three days before the November 6 election, according to a Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll released on Saturday.
Of likely voters polled nationally, 47 percent said they would back Obama, the Democratic incumbent, while 46 percent said they would back Romney, the former Massachusetts governor.
The results fall within the poll's credibility interval, a tool used to account for statistical variation in Internet-based polls.
The two men have been locked in a tight race for weeks. Both are doing final swings in battleground states over the weekend, trying to sway a small group of remaining undecided voters and to encourage their supporters to get to the polls.
The precision of the Reuters/Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval, which in this case is plus or minus 3.4 percentage points for likely voters.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/03/us-usa-campaign-poll-idUSBRE89K0A920121103
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,869 posts)Too bad Obama is leading in virtually every swing state. Do they realize how dumb they look when the math doesn't add up?
DJ13
(23,671 posts)Romney has done nothing of note to have caught the attention of voters, in fact his gaffes are the only noteworthy things he's done.
I suspect this election will be one scholars will look back on and note how the media companies thought they could manipulate popular opinion through phony polls, and how it didnt work.
mzteris
(16,232 posts)There can't be that many stupid people, can there be?
Look at the crowd sizes. Small, smaller, and smallest for Romney. Big, Bigger, and Biggest for Obama. People LOVE Obama - except the racists, of course and the hard core rightwingers. The fundies hate him, too, but they don't like Mormons much so that's a wash.
Unless they steal the damn election - entirely possible since they've done it many times before - no way, no how.
gawd help us all if romney weasels his way in. He'd be more of a catastrophe than GW was.
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)In the words of Noah, "riiiiiiiiiiiiiight..."