Politics
Election 2012: President Obama leading Romney in swing states
“My guess is they’re not sleeping very well in the White House tonight,” Romney said in Sterling, Virginia, a swing state where Obama leads most polls.
“If the court upholds it… It’s still a bad policy and that means if I’m elected we’re going to repeal it and replace it,” he said at an electronic design and manufacturing company.
Obama will likely try to assuage fears about unemployment when he stages his first bus tour of the 2012 campaign in Ohio and Pennsylvania for two days next week.
Obama was ahead of Romney by 9 percentage points in Ohio (47 percent to 38 percent) and 6 points in Pennsylvania (45 percent to 39 percent) in the Quinnipiac poll. He led in Florida by 45 percent to 41 percent.
No one has won the White House since 1960 without taking at least two of those three states.
Respondents in all three states said they favored Obama’s order earlier this month to halt deportations of the children of illegal immigrants.
Negative ads targeting Romney as a job killer during his time as a private-equity executive with Bain Capital have helped drag his poll numbers down.
