Also, some private polls of the campaign showed Reagan with a much wider advantage.
He also holds a wide advantage on which candidate would best confront the budget deficit.
Mr. Fisher holds a wide advantage in polls, money and party support, which has injected a bitter dynamic into the primary.
Mr. Bush held a wide advantage among men, 50 to 36 percentage points; among women, Mr. Gore drew 42percentt, Mr. Bush, 44percentt.
Mr Romney will point today to the wide advantage he has in the count that matters: the distribution of delegates to the national convention in August.
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Mr. Hagel's bill would limit but not ban soft money donations and would raise the federal limits on "hard money" donations, those directly to candidates' campaign committees, where Republicans enjoy a wide advantage.
The campaign uses testimonials from people who say they regret supporting Mr. Obama because of his economic policies and his posture toward Israel, in hopes of cutting into the wide advantage Democrats have held over Republicans among Jewish voters.
But while the polls found that Mr. Romney enjoyed a wide advantage in all three states on the question of who is better equipped to tackle the budget deficit, it found that he lagged on other questions voters feel strongly about — including who is better equipped to handle health care, Medicare and foreign policy.
The president is holding his coalition together with strong support from women and minority voters and is supported by 48 percent of likely voters nationwide, the poll found, while Mr. Romney holds a wide advantage among independents and men and is the choice of 47 percent.
