The Obama campaign suffered a major blow only hours before the vice-presidential debate when a new poll showed Romney opening up a seven-point lead over Barack Obama in Florida, the biggest of the swing states.
It is one of the most devastating set of poll figures the president has yet faced.
Were he to take Florida, with its 29 electoral college votes, Obama would be almost guaranteed re-election to the White House, needing just one more of the swing states. But without Florida, the race is thrown wide open. » | Ewen MacAskill in Danville | Friday, October 12, 2012
