Polls

The CNN poll showed Obama with a significant lead with women at 56 to 42 percent.

The data confirm a tight race that will leave both candidates in an all-out sprint through Election Day

Purple Strategies finds Obama up 2 points in Ohio, 1 point in Colorado, tied in Virginia.

Romney leads Obama by 5 points in the closely watched poll, 51 percent to 46.

A handful of new battleground polls show the candidates largely holding steady in the crucial swing states that are likely to decide the 2012 presidential election.

Mitt Romney has opened up a 5-point lead in Florida, while President Obama holds a 4-point lead in Iowa, a 3-point edge in New Hampshire and single-point advantages in Colorado and Nevada.

The Florida poll, conducted by Sunshine State News, shows Romney topping the 50 percent threshold with a 51 to 46 percent advantage. According to the survey, the Republican nominee held a 15-point advantage with men, while the president only led Romney by 5 points among women. The poll also found that voters in Florida favored Romney when asked which candidate was better on the issue of jobs creation by a 2-1 margin.

Romney has held a small but consistent lead in recent polls of the state — recent surveys by CNN, PPP, and Gravis all gave the Republican challenger a 1-point lead there — but this latest survey could be a sign that swing voters there are splitting for the challenger. At the same time,  voters who said the most recent presidential debates had a sway on their opinion broke nearly 2-1 for the president.

Poll finds Obama and Romney tied in Colorado, with Obama up three points in Nevada.

Two new surveys from Democratic-affiliated Public Policy Polling (PPP) show President Obama ahead of Mitt Romney in swing states Iowa and Wisconsin.

In Iowa, Obama takes 49 percent support over Romney's 47. That’s in line with the Real Clear Politics's (RCP) average of polls, which also shows the president ahead 49 percent to 47.

The poll includes two days of data since the final debate Monday, with Obama up 1 among registered voters.

President Obama and Mitt Romney are tied in the critical battleground state of Michigan, according to a Foster-McCollum-White-Baydoun poll released late Wednesday.

President Obama leads Mitt Romney in the critical battleground state of Virginia, according to a survey released Thursday from Public Policy Polling.