Polls

President Obama is leading in a pair of polls, released Wednesday, surveying the crucial battleground states of Virginia and New Hampshire.

The president holds a 48-45 percent lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, according to the survey from USAction and the Mellman Group. In Virginia, a similar poll gave the president a 46-to-45 percent lead over Romney.

Neither poll included surveys taken after Monday night's foreign-policy debate. Post-debate snap polls gave the contest to the president handily, although ratings were down significantly from the previous showdowns between the two candidates, and the Romney campaign maintained Tuesday that it thought its candidate's performance would help at the polls.

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Mitt Romney seized a narrow, single-point advantage in Tuesday's tracking poll by The Washington Post and ABC News, the first time the Republican presidential nominee has led in the survey since August.

The numbers are a reversal of Monday's, when the tracking poll showed the president with a 49 percent to 48 percent lead. Both results are within the poll's margin of error and primarily suggest an extremely tight race with just two weeks to go before Election Day.

Nevertheless, there were some encouraging signs for Romney in the poll. The Republican challenger led the president 50 percent to 45 percent when asked which candidate voters trust to do a better job handling the economy.

A plurality of registered voters said President Obama did better than Mitt Romney in the third and final presidential debate, according to a new poll released Tuesday.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll, taken a day after the debate, found 47 percent of registered voters said Obama won the debate, while 31 percent said Romney won. But the poll found that, despite Obama's perceived victory, favorability for both candidates did not change.

The latest Gallup survey shows Romney up 51-46, but doesn't include reaction to Monday's debate in Florida.

New polls released Tuesday show President Obama and Mitt Romney still in a tight, margin-of-error battle within key swing states, with the candidates trading 2-point leads in New Hampshire and Nevada.

Romney holds a narrow 49 to 47 percent lead in New Hampshire, having pulled even with independents and dominating the president among men and older voters.

But the president holds an identical overall lead in Nevada, dominating independents 50 to 44 percent in the state. The president also holds a commanding 57 to 43 percent lead among those who have voted early or absentee, according to the president.

Obama has a 1-percentage-point lead over Romney nationally, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll released Monday.

President Obama is pulling away from Mitt Romney in the critical battleground state of New Hampshire, according to a University of New Hampshire Granite State poll released Monday.

The Suffolk University poll shows a 47-47 tie, but Obama leading 54-41 among those who say they already voted.

The latest Gallup tracking poll, which includes five days of data after the second debate, puts Romney ahead 51-45.