from Huff Post: In Florida, a state widely considered a must-win for Romney, results ranged from a whopping 9 point Obama lead (53 to 43 percent) on the new CBS/Times/Quinnipiac poll, to a 4 point Obama advantage on the Washington Post poll (51 to 47 percent), to a much narrower 1 point edge for Obama (48 to 47 percent) on a Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald/Mason Dixon poll.
Most of the other polls have been closer to the Post and Mason-Dixon results. The HuffPost Pollster tracking model, which combines results from all public polls — national and statewide — to produce an estimate for each state shows Obama leading in Florida by just over five percentage points.
Team Romney’s political director Rich Beeson has dismissed theses polls “The public polls are what they are. I feel confident about where we are,” Obama campaign manager Jim Messina is “spiking the football at the 30-yard line,”