More Bad Polling News For Romney

Wow:

Three days until Election Day, President Barack Obama maintains his lead in the key battleground state of Ohio and is locked in a close contest with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in Florida, according to new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls.

In Ohio, Obama holds a six-point advantage over Romney among likely voters, 51 percent to 45 percent, which is unchanged from last month’s poll in the Buckeye State.

Well, to be honest, the Ohio numbers don't surprise me all that much.  That firewall has been holding for Obama over the past few weeks, and the polls are consistently showing the President over 50% in Ohio, a state that even Mitt Romney is admitting is a must-win for him. 

The Florida numbers, however, caught my attention:

[I]n Florida, the president gets support from 49 percent of likely voters, while his GOP challenger gets 47 percent. Those numbers are virtually identical to the ones from October, when it was Obama 48 percent, Romney 47 percent.

I really did think -- until very recently -- that Florida was in the bag for Mitt, and I have no doubt that the Romney Campaign felt the same way.

I still think that Romney will win Florida, but the fact that Mitt's people now have to work their asses off in that state -- instead of putting everything they've got into Ohio -- is an interesting development to say the least.