Recent Polls Show 2012 Settling Into Deadlock

With about five months until Election Day, a slew of recent polls show the presidential campaign is settling into dead-lock, both nationally and in key battleground states.

President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee in waiting, are even or close to it in Iowa, Nevada and Colorado, according to NBC/Marist College polls of each state released Thursday morning. While Mr. Romney is competing in all three states, they are not as critical in his potential paths to 270 electoral votes as larger swing states, such as Virginia, Ohio...