WHERE OBAMA STANDS – AT 11:30 A.M. ET:  I like to use Saturdays to catch up on the latest polling in the presidential race.   As the race stands, it's as tight as your favorite belt after you've had Thanksgiving dinner.

Rasmussen, who polls likely voters, has Romney at 45%, Obama at 44%.  In the Rasmussen survey, the two candidates have been within two points of each other for 11 of the past 12 days.  Romney has led on six of those days, Obama on the other six.

Romney is up six points in Indiana, a closer race than I'd expected there.  Obama is up six in Pennsylvania, a closer race than I'd expected there as well.

And the president's approval and disapproval share the same number, each at 49%.

Rasmussen makes this point:

Romney leads by 17 among white voters but picks up only four percent (4%) of the black vote. Among all other voters, Obama has an eight-point advantage.

The ethnic divisions in this country are getting worse.  It is troubling.  I have no doubt that some white voters vote along racial lines.  But the black vote tells us that racial voting isn't exclusive to one group.  Our schools in the last 40 years have taught students not to be part of one nation, but to be part of individual groups.  The schools have helped to create a dangerously divided country.

By the way, Gallup also has presidential approval/disapproval tied, in this case at 47%.

May 26, 2012