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Washington: Obama 52%, Romney 41%

President Obama holds a double-digit advantage over Mitt Romney in Washington State. 

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state shows Obama earning 52% of the vote, while Romney picks up 41% support. Three percent (3%) prefers some other candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided.  (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Washington is Likely Obama in the Rasmussen Reports Electoral College Scoreboard. Obama carried the state over Republican John McCain by a 58% to 41% margin in 2008.

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This Washington survey of 500 Likely Voters was conducted on September 26, 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.

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