President Obama leads the final national poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal by the smallest of margins. Obama clings to a 1-point lead, getting 48 percent of the total to Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s 47 percent. In mid-October NBC/WSJ found the race a tie, both candidates with 47 percent of the vote.
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