USA today: Poll: Romney, Obama tied in Michigan, other key swing states

By Cindy Heflin Associate news director

Posted on Mon, Jan 30, 2012 : 12:35 p.m.

GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are tied in a poll of likely voters in key battleground states, including Michigan, USA Today reports.

Mitt Romney, left, and Barack Obama are tied in key swing states, a new poll finds.

In a hypothetical Romney-Obama matchup, Romney leads Obama by a statistically insignificant percentage point, 48 percent to 47 percent, the USA Today/Gallup poll found.

Against Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, Obama leads by 14 percentage points, the poll found.

States included in the poll were Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.