The next president will be decided to the candidate who gets to the magic number of 267 - the number of electoral votes needed to secure the office of the presidency.
Right now, President Obama is sure of 201 electoral votes and GOP nominee Mitt Romney is confident that he will receive at least 206.
Based on our projections, Montana, Arizona and North Carolina are leaning towards Romney and he will pick up the majority of those states' 29 electoral votes.
According to Real Clear Politics, President Obama has been trailing Romney in North Carolina by as much as nearly six points. Romney has held a steady lead over the president since the beginning of October.
Oregon and Minnesota are leaning in the president's favor and he is expected to rack up the 17 electoral votes in those states.
A total of 10 states with 133 electoral votes are still undecided about which candidate they will vote for.
Iowa, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire, Virginia, Colorado, and Florida are all swing states that both candidates are wholeheartedly depending on to win the election.
In Florida, where 29 electoral votes are at stake, Romney is up by 2.1 points according to Real Clear Politics polling average.
According to a CNN/ORC International poll, 49 percent of likely voters in Florida say they support Romney, with 48 percent backing Obama.
In the key battleground state of Ohio, Real Clear Politics' average has Obama up by 2.1, 48.1 percent to 46. History has shown that no Republican has won with White House without winning Ohio.
Rasmussen Reports shows that Obama leads Ohio with 49 percent of support to Romney's 48 percent.
Ohio is among six battleground states with lower unemployment.
According to Real Clear Politics average, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney is leading by a very slim margin in Colorado. Romney is holding on to a 0.2 percent lead over President Obama, 47.8 to 47.6.
In Iowa, Public Policy Polling has Obama trailing Romney by one point, 49 percent to 48 percent.
A NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll shows the president ahead of Romney by as much as eight points.
Obama is leading in Iowa by 2.4 points, according to RCP's average.
According to CNN, of the 463,219 early voting ballots requested in Iowa as of Thursday morning, 45 percent came from registered Democrats compared to 30 percent of registered Republicans.
RCP's average has both candidates tied in Virginia.
According to the New York Times, Virginia is "one of the nation's newest battleground states and will be center stage in Obama's fight for reelection."
Virginia has 20 electoral votes to offer and Obama won the state in 2008 by as much as seven points.
In Wisconsin, Obama is leading Romney by nearly three points, 49.5 to 46.8, but the state's 10 electoral votes are still up for grabs.According to a Rasmussen Poll in the 11 swing states of Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin, Romney earns 50 percent of the vote to Obama's 46 percent.
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