US Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney holds a rally in Columbus, Ohio |
A Democrat in Washington close to the Obama camp reveals that the campaign's own polls in Ohio are even tighter than the public polls, which give the president an average lead of 2.8 per cent.
"They are very nervous, we are all very nervous," he says. "On a scale of 1 to 10 of certainty of winning, I am at six and a half, and no better."
Stephanie Cutter, Obama's deputy campaign manager, admits that Pennsylvania has "tightened", which is what politicos tend to say when they are getting worried about a race.
According to the Daily Mail Online, Romney's in-house pollster Neil Newhouse finds the Republican is leading by a point in Ohio, two in Iowa, three in New Hampshire and is level in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
If those numbers are accurate, Romney would almost stroll into the White House. Even allowing for an element of spin, there could be a decisive late shift to Romney, driven by enthusiasm among Republicans and disillusion among Democrats.
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