PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: …The latest independent polls show ever-slimmer margins in the presidential and U.S. Senate races in Pennsylvania – with Republicans gaining ground in both.
President Obama now leads by 50 percent to 46 percent in the state, as Republican Mitt Romney has narrowed a 12-point gap since September, according to a Quinnipiac University poll of likely voters conducted from Friday to Sunday and released Tuesday.
That result mirrors a Muhlenberg College/Allentown Morning Call poll that came out Monday.
The race for Senate looks even closer. The Quinnipiac poll shows that Republican nominee Tom Smith, after putting $15 million of his own cash into the campaign, now trails incumbent Democrat Bob Casey by just three points, 48 percent to 45 percent… (more)
