Politics | NBC/WSJ Poll NBC Poll: Obama 47%, Romney 47% Tie game, says latest tally By Polly Davis Doig Posted Oct 21, 2012 11:15 AM CDT Copied Mitt Romney and President Obama attend the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) With two weeks to go before Election Day, the game is all tied up, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll making some waves this morning. President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney are each pulling 47% nationally among likely voters in the survey, which was conducted after the second presidential debate; Obama had previously polled at 49% to Romney's 46% before the first debate. NBC notes that Obama holds a 49% to 44% lead among registered voters, which is a bigger pool, and he still leads among women, 51% to 43%. Romney, meanwhile, holds a firm lead among men, 53% to 43%. The margin of error is 3.43% among likely voters. Read These Next Christina Applegate pulls back the curtain on her real life. Driver who killed Dixie Chicks founder hears his fate. Cops say assisted living worker fatally shot a resident in the head. SCOTUS hands significant loss to private prison company. Report an error