OH: Marist College: Obama leads by six

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Does anyone here understand that pollsters don't go out and purposely call registered Democrats and Republicans?  Party IDs are reflective of an attitude, not a statistic that pollsters are basing who they call on.  I just don't know how many times this has to be repeated.  

Marist conducted NBC's last round of polls of the 9 swings states.  This shows improvement for Romney of about 2 pts.  This seems about right for a national swing of 3, considering the rough go of it Romney has had in the state since just about the beginning of the campaign.  Some of the most reputable pollsters had Romney down 8 in OH before the debate.  There are few things that are going to swing a state as large as Ohio 8 pts in the course of a week.  

It's a lean Obama state that Mitt needs... Mitt needs a repeat performance in Debate part deux.  He was admittedly excellent in execution in the first one.