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Wisconsin, when nbc releases its brand-new battleground poll. let me bring in nbcs senior political editor mark murray for a preview. mark, obviously, we know the importance of these two states, but you cant say it enough. >> thats right, tamron. they only combine make up 16 electoral votes, but theyre very important to each campaigns path to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the white house. if president obama, for example, can win both iowa and wisconsin, all he has to do is actually win o...

That gets you past 270. conversely for mitt romney, if he ends up losing virginia, then he gives obama more paths to 270. if he wins it, he makes sure the obama folks have to be able to win either ohio or florida. >> so as we take a look at the temperature right now in virginia, president obama currently leads in the state. this is according to the recent quinnipiac poll. as we see right there, virginia women, hes got the support of them by 51%. he also has 82% support from the states african-am...