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Obama has 10-point lead in new national poll
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08/02/12 05:07 PM ET
President Obama leads Mitt Romney nationally by 10 points, according to a new poll released Thursday.
Obama took 51 percent compared to Romney’s 41 percent of the vote when the Pew Research Center asked which candidate people would vote for if the election were held today. That’s a much wider gap between the two candidates than most recent polls show; the RealClearPolitics national average puts Obama in the lead with an average of 3 points.
The race was tighter in the 12 states the Pew poll identified as being battlegrounds: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Obama still leads among these states, but only by 4 points — 48 percent to 44 percent for Romney — and barely outside the margin of error. Previous polls by Pew since February have showed a closing gap between the two candidates in these states, with Obama so far retaining his slight lead.
The margin of error for the poll was 3 percentage points.
Obama took 51 percent compared to Romney’s 41 percent of the vote when the Pew Research Center asked which candidate people would vote for if the election were held today. That’s a much wider gap between the two candidates than most recent polls show; the RealClearPolitics national average puts Obama in the lead with an average of 3 points.
Obama still leads among these states, but only by 4 points — 48 percent to 44 percent for Romney — and barely outside the margin of error. Previous polls by Pew since February have showed a closing gap between the two candidates in these states, with Obama so far retaining his slight lead.
The margin of error for the poll was 3 percentage points.
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