President Barack Obama is currently leading in Ohio, but behind in Florida and Wisconsin, according to New York time polls.
Voters in all three states give favorable ratings to Ryan, but his Medicare plan is opposed by majorities of voters. Obama is viewed as better at handling Medicare than Romney in all three states, the poll shows.
Here's how the new poll looks
- Ohio: Obama (50 %), compared to (Romney's 44 %).
- Florida: Obama has slipped from 51% to 41%, while Romney is now at 46 percent.
- Wisconsin: Obama has dropped to 49 percent from the 51 percent he had in an Aug. 8 poll, and Romney has inched up to 47 percent from 45 percent in the Aug. 8 poll.
"It seems like the pick of Paul Ryan has had some small beneficial effect for Mitt Romney," Peter Brown, the assistant director of the Quinnipiac poll, told CBS News' Bill Plante on "Face to Face". Referring specifically to Wisconsin, Brown added, "Obviously, it's had some home-team effect."
The latest poll showed that Ryan is unknown to about four in 10 likely voters in Florida and Ohio, and obviously most familiar to Wisconsin voters.
The poll was conducted via telephone August 15-21. The number of voters interviewed in each state was 1,241 in Florida, 1,253 in Ohio and 1,190 in Wisconsin. The margin of error in each state is plus or minus four percentage points.
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