This is not good news for Team Romney.
Quinnipiac:
President Barack Obama is over the magic 50 percent mark and tops Gov. Mitt Romney among likely voters by 9 to 12 percentage points in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to a Quinnipiac University/ CBS News/New York Times Swing State Poll released today.
Voters in each state see President Obama as better than Gov. Romney to handle the economy, health care, Medicare, national security, an international crisis and immigration. Romney ties or inches ahead of the president on handling the budget deficit.
Matching Obama against Romney in each of these key states - no one has won the White House since 1960 without taking at least two of them...
In this race, Mitt Romney needs -- absolutely
needs -- Ohio and Florida to win.
MSNBC's First Read notes that Romney begins a bus tour today that "has to do more than stop the bleeding for Romney in Ohio; it has to be the beginning of a turnaround for him in this state. Losing Ohio isn’t checkmate, but it’s close." Losing Florida
and Ohio? That
is checkmate -- and Mitt can't tour both states at once. So he seems to be piling all his chips on Ohio...[
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