A new Quinnipiac poll of Ohio shows President Obama with a two point lead over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, making a possible presidential matchup between the two men a statistical dead. Obama gets 44 percent to Romney’s 42 in the state, despite and underwater approval rating of 44 percent approval to 51 percent disapproval.
“With Ohio being perhaps the most important single state in the country when it comes to the Electoral College math, all indications are that if Romney is the Republican nominee it will be a very, very close contest,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute in a release. “The president’s problem is getting back the voters who voted for him in 2008 but went for John Kasich for governor in 2010. His main obstacle may be that voters say 48 – 42 percent that Romney is better able to fix the economy.”
The current TPM Poll Average of the race in the state shows a 1.4 percent lead for Obama.
