Pollster leaves key swing states, says Obama can't win there

David Paleologos, a Suffolk University pollster, has stopped conducting polls in the battleground states of North Carolina, Florida, and Virginia. His reasoning for doing this is that he believes that the race is no longer close here, as Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney has a significant lead over President Barack Obama. Paleologos announced this on the O'Reilly Factor, citing that it no longer is a good use of his resources to continue to poll in these states if they have remained one-sided for so long. When asked by Bill O'Reilly as to why he was so confident these three states were definitely voting for Romney, Paleologos responded by saying:

"Before the debate, the Suffolk poll had Obama ahead 46 to 43 [in Florida] in the head-to-head number. A poor place to be for a couple of reasons. Number one, his ballot test, his head-to-head number was below 47 percent before the debate, and it’s very, very difficult when you have the known quantity, the incumbent, to claw your way up to 50. So that was a very, very poor place for him to be.So we’re looking at this polling data not only in Florida but in Virginia and North Carolina and it’s overwhelming,” Paleologos concluded.

This interview with a fairly prominent pollster is another indication that North Carolina is no longer as close of a race between the two candidates as had been predicted.

 

Pollster pulls out of Swing States, says Obama can't win - The Hill