According to a June 12 report by Public Policy Polling, Mitt Romney now leads Barack Obama in North Carolina 48-46. “It’s a small lead but still significant in that it’s the first time we’ve found Romney ahead in our monthly polling of the state since October,” the report states. The firm, a leftward-leaning group based out of Raleigh, projected that Romney was trailing Obama by one point in its mid-May general...

The presidential race is heating up with Gov. Mitt Romney in the lead in North Carolina by 8 percentage points over Democratic candidate President Barack Obama, according to a May 16 poll by Rasmussen Reports.