Romney narrowly wins in INQUIRER.net poll

MANILA, Philippines—Mirroring the neck-in-neck electoral battle between the two US Presidential candidates, the result of the INQUIRER.net poll has Republican Mitt Romney narrowly winning the election with a 3.96-percentage edge over incumbent President Barack Obama, a Democrat.

Out of the total 4,046 votes, 2,103, or 51.98 percent, went to Romney, while 1,943 (48.02 percent) to Obama. Romney got 160 votes more than Obama’s.

Polls opened in the eastern states – including battlegrounds New Hampshire and Virginia – from 6 a.m. (1100 GMT), an Agence France-Presse report said.

The AFP said that “in a possible precursor of a dramatic night ahead, Obama and Romney were tied at five votes each, a historic first…as the 10 voters in the hamlet of Dixville Notch, in northern New Hampshire, played their traditional roll of casting the first votes in the election as the clock struck midnight.”

The AFP report further said: “In poll averages calculated by the RealClearPolitics website, Obama led in Iowa (by 2.4 percent), Ohio (2.9 percent), Wisconsin (4.2 percent), Virginia (0.3 percent), New Hampshire (2.0 percent), and Colorado (1.5 percent).

“Romney led by 1.5 percent in the biggest swing state, Florida, and in North Carolina, which Obama won by just three percent, or 14,000 votes, in 2008.”