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Obama, Romney Tied in Florida: Poll

And Florida's women prefer Obama by just a slim margin

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 19, 2012 4:54 PM CDT

(Newser) – In case you haven't totally OD'd on polls yet: CNN has a new one indicating that President Obama and Mitt Romney are statistically tied in the swing state of Florida. The survey of 1,030 adults gave Romney a 49% to 48% lead, with the usual division between younger, less affluent voters preferring Obama and older, more moneyed ones liking Romney. One interesting tidbit: Women lean toward Obama by a tiny difference of 49% to 47% in the Sunshine State.

"This suggests that in Florida women are voting more on the basis of pocketbook concerns and issues that split young and old throughout the country," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. (More good news for Romney in Florida: the Orlando Sentinel endorses him.)

Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama attend the 67th annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York.
Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama attend the 67th annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York.   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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MichaelBenesch
Oct 21, 2012 10:51 AM CDT
AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH FLORIDA the home of the dangling chad and a governor who should be coming up for parole after his company defrauded Medicare&Medicaid  out of billions and he took the 5th over 50 times to bail out with a 400 million golden parachute and no jail time. Florida where voter suppression is key to Scott giving (R)omney the state. Florida where seniors will vote against their own interests because of a 30 second ad saying Mitt won't hurt you, he is aiming at those 55 yr olds.  GOOD LUCK FLORIDIANS you are taking me with you!   I'm living in Gulf Breeze Florida and it's all (R)USHubliCON all the time while everything is disintergrating.  This area is dixicrat (R)USHubliCONs who never forgave the democratic party&Lindon Johnson for civil rights and can't see Barack Obama in their WHITE HOUSE
cornelison
Oct 21, 2012 1:47 AM CDT
Here's a question for polls; How many conservative women who say that they're voting for Mitt are really voting for Obama?
Shokai
Oct 20, 2012 4:42 PM CDT
Obama needs to win by a substantial margin in the battleground states.  Otherwise, we'll see a repeat of 2000 in Florida and 2004 in Ohio.  We don't want to live in a country where this is common place: http://youtu.be/xJVhDImLbiM
 

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