Poll: Florida up for grabs in November election

May 3, 2012 (Written by Brent Kallestead, Associated Press) – TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney could be headed for a photo finish in Florida this November, a poll released Thursday shows. Forty-four percent of 1,169 Florida voters surveyed by Quinnipiac University between April 25 and May 1 said they’d vote for Romney if the election were now, compared to 43 percent who said they prefer the president. The latest snapshot of voter preferences has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points. The new figures were an improvement for Romney, who trailed Obama by 7 percentage points among Florida voters in late March.

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