President Barack Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney are tied going into the final hours of tomorrow’s presidential election. At the weekend, they went on a last-minute push for votes in swing states in what is pointing towards becoming the most keenly contested election in U.S history.
An opinion poll yesterday for ABC News and the Washington Post put the candidates at 48%.
Voters who term themselves independents are split evenly on 46%.
Romney remains favoured in the whites, seniors and evangelical groups; Mr Obama in women, non-whites and young adults. Obama remains slightly ahead in most of the nine-or-so swing states that will determine the election.
Opinion polls published on Saturday showed him well-placed in Iowa, Nevada and Ohio, but most remain within the polls’ own margins of error.
The election is run, using electoral college. Each state is given a number of votes based on its population. The candidate who wins 270 electoral college votes becomes president
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