Not that the presidential race isn't important, of course. It's just that there really isn't all that much new to say about them, based on today's data. Florida is a coinflip. Most of the other key battlegrounds are also close, as they have been for a while.
Rasmussen has Romney leading. Gallup and other pollsters don't.
If ever there was a status quo day on the White House polling front, this is it.
But two primary election polls out of the Wolverine State are drawing a lot of attention, as is another poll of what may well be among the closest House races in the nation come November.
On to the numbers:
PRESIDENTIAL GENERAL ELECTION TRIAL HEATS:
NATIONAL (Gallup Tracking): Obama d. Romney (47-45)DOWNBALLOT POLLING:NATIONAL (Marist for McClatchy): Obama d. Romney (48-46)
NATIONAL (Purple Strategies): Obama d. Romney (47-45)
NATIONAL (Rasmussen Tracking): Romney d. Obama (46-44)
COLORADO (Purple Strategies): Obama d. Romney (45-44)
FLORIDA (Mason Dixon): Obama d. Romney (46-45)
FLORIDA (Purple Strategies): Romney d. Obama (48-45)
OHIO (Purple Strategies): Obama d. Romney (48-45)
VIRGINIA (Purple Strategies): Obama d. Romney (46-44)
ME-02 (Normington Petts & Associates for Michaud): Rep. Mike Michaud (D) 62, Kevin Raye (R) 30A few thoughts, as always, await you just past the jump ...MI-SEN—R (Practical Political Consulting): Peter Hoesktra 75, Randy Hekman 11, Clark Durant 8, Gary Glenn 6
MI-13—D (PPC for Inside Michigan Politics): Rep. John Conyers 48, Glenn Anderson 26
MI-14—D (PPC for Inside Michigan Politics): Rep. Gary Peters 41, Rep. Hansen Clarke 34
ND-GOV (Rasmussen): Gov. Jack Dalrymple (R) 61, Ryan Taylor (D) 26
PA-12 (Benenson Strategies for House Majority PAC): Rep. Mark Critz (D) 44, Keith Rothfus (R) 38