USA Africa Dialogue Series - Breaking News: YAY! Romney Takes The Lead In Iowa

YAY! That the Bradley and Wilder Effects are at play this time around is hardly a matter of dispute!  Advantage?  Romney!

Election 2012: Iowa President

Iowa: Romney 49%, Obama 48%

Thursday, November 01, 2012

Iowa remains neck-and-neck in the closing days of Election 2012, with Mitt Romney now showing a one-point lead. 

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Iowa Voters finds the Republican challenger with 49% support, while President Obama earns 48% of the vote. Two percent (2%) like someone else in the race, and one percent (1%) is undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

The survey of 750 Likely Voters in Iowa was conducted on October 30, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.