Obama leads in Nevada, Wisconsin, BUT...

A couple polls for your afternoon.

NEVADA:

We Ask America poll: Obama 49% Romney 43%

That's a nice lead for Obama, but here's the deceptive thing about it. He pulls in an astounding 26% of Republicans in the survey, while Romney only pulls in 11% of Dems.

It's hard to imagine the president winning 26% of Republicans on election day. I haven't seen any poll, anywhere suggesting those kind of numbers.

Further, indies support Romney, 49%-37%. If you combine that with a more realistic galvanization, you'd probably see the two candidates in a dead heat.

But We Ask America is an automated poll, so the usual caveats apply there -- even more so, with the weird base results.

Magellan poll: Obama 50% Romney 46%

The good news for Obama is that he cracks 50%. The good news for Romney is that his voters are more committed.

43% say they'll "definitely" support Romney, while only 40% say "definitely" Obama. If you apply the maxim that undecided voters break for challengers, then that's a pretty good sign for Romney.

WISCONSIN:

We Ask America poll: Obama 49% Romney 42%

Again, good results for Obama, but they're partly based on what seems questionable -- in the poll, Obama pulls in 15% of Republicans, while Romney only picks up 7% of Democrats.

So as in WAA's poll of Nevada, you see Obama doing much, much better with Republicans than Romney with Democrats.

That's just not a phenomenon that's shown up in other polling.

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