High Point University poll:
A poll conducted by High Point University found that President Barack Obama would have lost the state by 5 percentage points, 47-42, to an unnamed Republican opponent if the presidential election had been held earlier this month.
The poll also found that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney led his Republican challengers Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul in the state’s Republican primary.
Thirty percent of registered voters in the survey said they would vote for Romney, 19 percent would vote for Gingrich, 13 percent for Santorum and 11 percent for Paul. Twenty-six percent were undecided or didn’t answer.
Good thing the president’s doing some heavy lifting here in N.C.
