THEY'RE LOSING MISSOURI

Election 2012: Missouri President

Missouri: Obama 47%, Romney 46%

Friday, August 24, 2012

As the controversy over Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" comment continues, Mitt Romney's lead in Missouri has vanished.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Missouri Voters finds President Obama with 47% support to Romney's 46%. Three percent (3%) favor some other candidate in the race, and three percent (3%) more are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here .)

The survey of 500 Likely Voters in Missouri was conducted on August 22, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC . See methodology .