Poll: Obama leads in Virginia, Wisconsin; Tight in Colorado

(CBS News) President Obama holds a narrow lead over Mitt Romney in the key swing states of Virginia, Wisconsin and Colorado, according to a new Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times survey.

Mr. Obama leads his GOP opponent 51 percent to 45 percent in Wisconsin, the home state of GOP vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan. The president held a two-point lead in an August 23 Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times survey and nine points in an August 8 survey. Mr. Obama won the state by 14 points in 2008.

In Virginia, Mr. Obama leads Romney 50 percent to 46 percent, matching his four-point lead from August. Mr. Obama took the state by seven points four years ago, making him the first Democrat to carry it since 1964.

In Colorado, the survey found Mr. Obama holds a one-point lead, 48 percent to 47 percent. That's within the survey's three-point margin of error. In the August survey, Romney led the president by five points in Colorado.

The survey found that Mr. Obama has gained some ground on the issue of the economy - where Romney has until now held an advantage.

The Candidates on the Issues: Domestic and Foreign

The president has gained some ground on handling the economy since last month. In August, Romney had an advantage on this issue (including a 10-point lead on it Colorado), but the candidates are now running much closer. In Colorado, 48 percent of voters think Romney will handle the economy better compared to 47 percent for Mr. Obama. In Virginia and Wisconsin, Mr. Obama has a 49-47 percent and 49-46 percent edge respectively on the economy issue.

Amid the protests and violence in the Middle East, likely voters in all three of these battlegrounds see Mr. Obama as the candidate who would best handle an international crisis - 50-43 percent in Colorado, 53-42 percent in Virginia and 53-41 percent in Wisconsin. He also has an advantage over Romney in both Virginia and Wisconsin on national security and terrorism - 51-44 percent in Virginia and 50-43 percent in Wisconsin - and a two-point edge over Romney on the issue in Colorado, 48-46 percent. In last month's Colorado poll, Romney beat the president on the issue of national security, 50 percent to 41 percent.

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[J2289]

Polls are meaningless; ignore them. In 1980 Gallup polls had Jimmuh Carter beating Ronald Reagan by 4% in Sep and 8% in Oct 80; then Gallup had Mondale beating Reagan by 8% in Oct 1984.

What really counts is that Ohioans median income is at a 27 year low. Obama doesn't care; he won't talk about the unemployment, misery, and poverty rampant in the USA. Read this article: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/09/14/median-income-in-ohio-hits-27-year-low.html

Here's what we Ohioans need to do:
A. Nov 6th: you and your friends kick out job killer not my fault not quite shovel ready muslim sympathizer FORWARD FAILURE nobama and all tax and spend politicians. GET INVOLVED; TAKE AN ACTIVE PART IN KICKING OUT OBAMA.
B. Repeal nobamacare and replace it with a better system not run by the Government.
C. Pass mandatory national E-Verify to stop illegals from stealing our jobs.
D. Pass mandatory national Voter ID to stop illegals from stealing our vote.
E. Don't listen to or believe the biased mainstream media [CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, AP, Reuters, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, NY Times, Miami Herald...they are not journalists...they are liars for FORWARD FAILURE liberals.
F. Watch the movie "2016" to see the real obama.
G. Read the book "The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House" by Edward Klein.

[dj_chi]

You are gonna be crying like a baby on Nov 6! When even the conservatives' favorite polls show Willard is sinking - particularly in the toss-up states that he NEEDS to win - then it's clear to the rest of us that Willard's hate-fest with the half of America he sees as moochers and bloodsuckers is coming to an end.

And your right wing propaganda drek can't help enough to save him.

[samishotore]

Virginia Poll: D+11 <<< Gauging the poll as if Obama will gain 83% MORE turnout than in 2008
Romney leads Independents in the state by 9%....

Colorado Poll is R+1 actually pretty fair for the moment as it is a split of the 04 and 08 turnouts

Wisconsin Poll: D+9 <<< Gauging the polls as if Obama will gain a 50% increase in turnout over 2008
Romeny leads Independents by 6%...

Virginia and Wisconsin are LAUGHABLE...there is ZERO chance the turnout will be at those levels. These polls are pure junk. The pollsters are super inflating this race for Obama and the devil is in the details. Not since Clinton or Kennedy has the Democrat turnout margin been anywhere near Obama 08....that will not happen in 2012...not with polling showing massive decrease in enthusiasm among youth, minorities, etc.

[Morpope]

The reason Obama is leading in many of the swing states is because the mass media puts labels on Romney such as "Shoots first and aims later." When it comes to Libya why doesn't the mass media use the label "The administration lies first and faces the facts later."

[mikesfilms]

The agendas. Obama: bin Laden is dead--GM is alive--Medicare and SS are safe. Romney/Ryan: Medicare vouchers--"privatize" SS--lower the rich tax--increase Defense spending now that two wars are winding down--hide offshore accounts.

[sjc_1]

We are going to see more Republican candidates distancing themselves from Robme. In an anti coat tail operation, they will be humming Paul Simon's tune "Slip sliding away...."

[RollotheNorman]

Obama's gonna win, gonna win again. Willard can't even run his own campaign, and RepubliCON pukes want us to trust him with the country?

[Lindag20]

Seems like after the 47% gaffe three Republican Senatorial candidates are trying to distance themselves from Romney. Guess they actually WANT to win their respective races.

[TimeToEvolve]

It's still early and the economy is improving rapidly now. Plus Robbed Me Ryan have plenty of time to keep proving they only care about rich white men and don't really care about America.

[arthanyel]

Diddy_is_back: The President isn't a Marxist - do you even understrand what the word means? A Marxist would never bail out the auto companies, they would naiotnalize them. A Marxist would never bail out the banks, they would have nationalized them. Obama (and TTE) are not even CLOSE to being Marxists.

On the other hand, a fair argument can be made that people like you (Teapublicans) are fascists.

[RollotheNorman]

Actually what Marxism is, arthanyel, has been disputed enough that Karl Marx once remarked he was no Marxist. Marxism is not equivalent to Marxist-Leninist Communism, which is the usual US opinion.

[IPDAILY121]

i wonder what all the liberals are going to do when Romney becomes the next president. I find it hard to believe that most of the people in America would even hire Obama To park their car never mind run the country. You all seem so little minded unable to see the truth through the cool aid you'll drank 4years ago. How could we hire a man that has broken every promise that he made in his last campaign. increased the federal budget 6 trillion dollars in 3 years. put 49,000,000 people on food stamps, 114,00,000 people on government assistance. Spent hundreds of billions of dollars on failed start ups like Solyndra, and made sure his buddies got paid before the taxpayers in the bankruptcy. His justice department sending guns to Mexico to kill Mexicans and American border guards. Didn't seem to make time for security briefings in the White House went to hang out with Rappers while out Ambassador and 3 of our fellow Americans laid face down dead in Libya. Yeah this is a guy i want running the country!

[arthanyel]

Conservative propaganda, almost 100% fact free.

1) Obama didn't "break every promise he made" - in fact, he has kept more campaign promises than most Presidents. He has only broken 17%. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/

2) Obama did not increase the federal budget $6T - or even $1T. Obama has not, in fact increased the budget AT ALL except in the first year with the stimulus. And if you meant to say debt, wingnut, HE didn't increase that either - that's entirely due to REPUBLICAN actions in tax cuts and unfunded spending, and the economic meltdown that occurred before he was elected.

3) Obama didn't "put 49M people on food stamps at 114M on government assistance". Where do you get your "facts"? Faux News? That is MORE than the TOTAL of people that receive those benefits, and the VAST MAJORITY were receiving them BEFORE Obama was elected, or were thrown out of work in the meltdown that happened BEFORE HE WAS ELECTED.

4) Obama didn't "spend hundreds of billions on failed startups and give the money to his friends." Not only are your numbers wrong, you obviously don't understand the concept of preferred stock and debt preference.

5) His Justice Department didn't send "guns to Mexico to kill Mexicans and American border guards." Not only was this program started UNDER BUSH (and he didn't know about it either) but they didn't "send" anything.

6) The Libya comment is ridiculous. No one knew there was going to be any violence, and Obama took quick and appropriate actions in response. I suppose you would say George W. Bush decided to go hang out at a photo op when the Twin Towers were going down? He had MUCH MORE WARNING of an imminent attack than Obama had about Libya.

And as for the last comment, yes this IS the guy I want running the country - because my other choice is Mitt the Gaffster who will plunge us into a Great Depression, get us involved in a solo war in Iran on a credit card, and will steal from the poor to give to the rich. In comparison - there is no comparison.

Obama is clearly the better choice.

[TimeToEvolve]

Keep dreaming, I don't think the American people are stupid enough to0 vote for a greedy slimewad with no plans after the last Republicon administration caused this whole problem.

[TimeToEvolve]

Hopefully the demolition of Robbed Me Ryan will also help get rid of the obstructionist Republicons in the House and Senate. No matter how much Obama is winning by we should continue to make sure everyone goes out to vote for the other races. Plus the Republicons are actively engaged in election fraud because that is the only way they can win.

[tryingtodogoodwork]

As we're learning more about Governor Romney, we're finding that he is an arrogant and astoundingly befuddled and bumbling plutocrat who regards himself as being better than the minions around him (those of us he wishes to lead).

It looks to me as if President Obama will handily be re-elected to a (very well deserved) second term.

Obama, 2012!!!!!!!! (eight exclamation points, eight years in office)

Hillary, 2016!!!!!!!!