A late surge in support for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has put him in a dead heat with President Obama with just over two weeks to go before the election, according to a new nationwide Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Sunday.
Among likely voters, the candidates are now tied, 47% to 47%, in a race that appears on track to be one of the closest in US history.
Romney has pulled abreast of the president for the first time all year in the Journal poll, erasing a three-point lead among likely voters that Obama had in late September and a five-point lead earlier that month. Romney’s surge followed his strong debate performance in Denver early this month and a contentious second debate with Obama last week.
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Among the full sample of 1,000 registered voters, Obama led Romney, 49% to 44%, down from a seven-point edge he had among registered voters in late September. The margin of error for that sample was 3.1 percentage points.
The race becomes a dead heat when weighing only those considered likely to vote in the election. Obama’s edge among registered voters, which has also cropped up in many polls of battleground states, points to the challenge his campaign faces in converting supporters into actual voters between now and Nov. 6.
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