Poll: Romney Leads Obama By Double Digits In NH

In a hypothetical matchup in New Hampshire, President Obama trails GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney by 10 percentage points, according to a Bloomberg poll. 

Obama carried the northeastern swing state 54-45 percent in 2008 due in large part to the high volume of support among independent voters, a key constituency that has been turned off by the ongoing fiscal crisis facing the country.  

According to the poll, Romney rakes in 15 percent more of likely independent voters than Obama does. Forty percent of New Hampshire residents and 37 percent of its independents say the approve of Obama’s performance during his first three years in office.  

The New Hampshire could hold the key to the White House given that the Granite State has voted for the winning candidate in four of the last five presidential elections.

The results of the poll based off the surveys of 500 New Hampshire residents, 324 of whom are likely general election voters.