"If today were November 6, President Barack Obama would sweep the key swing states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania and - if history is any guide - into a second term in the Oval Office," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "The president is running better in the key swing states than he is nationally. Part of the reason may be that the unemployment rate in Ohio is well below the national average. In Florida it has been dropping over the past year, while nationally that has not been the case."

According to the Quinnnipiac, New York Times CBS Swing State poll, Obama is ahead of Gov. Mitt Romney 51-45% in Florida, 50-44% in Ohio, and an impressive 53-42% in Pennsylvania. The results seem to be related to voters' views on the President's plan to lower taxes on the middle class and raises taxes on the income of the wealthy over $250.000 per year.

Obama's tax plan wins the approval of Floridians by a 58-37% tally, by a 60-37% margin in Ohio, and by a 62-34% margin in the State of PA.