Poll: Romney inching closer to Obama in Pa.

As Mitt Romney and President Obama head into their second debate Tuesday, a new Pennsylvania poll shows Romney closing the gap with the president.

The Quinnipiac University Poll shows Mr. Obama with a four-point lead. The president has 50 percent support to Romney's 46 percent. The results are a positive sign for Romney, who was down by 12 points in a September 26 Quinnipiac poll.

Romney's favorability rating has also risen in Pennsylvania as 46 percent of the 1,519 likely voters surveyed view the Republican candidate favorably compared to 41 percent in September.

Mr. Obama, however, still enjoys higher favorability with 52 percent.

Continuing with the national trends, Pennsylvania men back Romney over Mr. Obama 54 percent to 43 percent, which is a wider gap than in September. Pennsylvania women back the president 57 percent to 39 percent, which is about the same as last month.

The poll's margin of error is 3 percentage points and only 7 percent of likely voters polled say they might change their minds before Election Day.

CBS News does not consider Pennsylvania a swing state, but the poll appears to show the state becoming more comfortable with Romney, which is what other polls reveal. As CBS News reported Monday, a USA Today/ Gallup poll from Monday shows Romney with a five-point lead in swing states and in recent national polls his favorability ratings are on the rise. 

A separate poll by Suffolk University released Monday shows Mr. Obama tied with Romney in New Hampshire. Of the 500 people polled, Mr. Obama posted 47 percent to Romney's 47 percent. The margin of error is 4 percentage points.

Mr. Obama leads among New Hampshire women 50 percent to 46 percent, but Romney leads among men 49 percent to 43 percent.

The president enjoys a personal favorability rating of 40 percent compared to Romney's 48 percent in the Granite State.

In a third new poll, Gallup's Daily tracking poll, which is a national poll, Romney sees a small bounce. He is leading the president 50 percent to 46 percent, which is Romney's largest lead since at least October 1.

Gallup asked 2700 likely voters between October 9 and 15. The margin of error is 2 percentage points

[boondoggles]

This president has been an unmitigated disaster. Young people need to realize that they will be the ones who have to pay off the debt he is creating. Romney told the truth in the debate, if Obama wins you can add another four more trillion onto our deficit. Use your heads folks. If we end up like Greece noone will have any food,future or anything else. And, our debt is a moral issue. We should not pass on down to our children.

[Jabbry]

---"My nest egg, and insurance, is more important than YOUR right wing, evangelical, fundamentalist, Christian Taliban, BS."----

I will not condemn you for your perspective. At least you are honest about your priorities! Thank your mother for choosing life. Nothing Taliban or fundamentalist about that...

[Jabbry]

Interesting... Remember Casey Anthony? The issue was not what a woman could do with her body, but what was an acceptable way to treat another person. Therefore, the question is not one of choice but simply: is an unborn child alive? If it is, then to kill it is... well... Don't respond with questions always meant to excuse abortion: "what about contraception?", for example. Fact: 50 million since Roe V. Wade is not "safe and rare". Someone tell me I am not a right-wing fanatic extremist for simply stating that unborn children are alive and, as such, should be protected like little Casey Anthony should have been. This issue is greater to me than my nest egg or health insurance. Any nation that kills its own innocent is on dangerous ground. I always vote pro-life, because the opposite of pro-life is not in fact pro-choice.

[IW15RICH]

ROMNEY=NO MEDICARE