President Obama holds a five-point lead over Mitt Romney in Ohio and smaller leads in Virginia and Florida, according to a Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News poll released Wednesday.
In Florida, Obama leads Romney by one point, 48 percent to 47 percent. In Virginia, Obama leads 49 percent to 47 percent. In Ohio, Obama hits 50 percent to Romney’s 45 percent.
Among women and white voters, Obama is doing better in Ohio than in the other two states.
The polls were conducted between Oct. 23 – 28 and have a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points for the Florida and Virginia surveys and +/- 2.9 percentage points in the Ohio survey.
