Latest Swing States Polls 2012: Race to the White Could Come Down to these Eight States

The race to the White House could ultimately decided by Ohio, Florida, Iowa, New Hampshire, Colorado, Virginia, Wisconsin and Nevada.

Ohio's 18 electoral votes are all too important for President Obama and GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

Romney must win, according to history, Ohio to secure his place in the White House on Nov. 6.

According to RealClear Politics' average of polls, Obama is leading Romney by nearly three percent.

According to newly released CNN/ORC International poll, President Obama leads Romney by three points, 50 to 47 percent.

"The race in the Buckeye State has remained essentially the same throughout October, with all three CNN/ORC polls taken in October showing President Obama at 50%-51% and all three showing Governor Romney at 46%-47%," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said in a statement.

University of Cincinnati's final projection in the race for president shows the president getting support from 50 percent of voters and Romney getting support from 48.5 percent.

Romney will travel today to Ohio and Pennsylvania for last-minute campaign stops. Ohio has emerged as a key to a Romney victory.

Florida's 29 electoral votes are also crucial for both candidates.

Romney leads Obama by 1.5 points.

In Iowa, there are six electoral votes up for grabs and Obama leads his challenger by 2.4 points.

The president and the first lady ended their campaigning in Iowa last night.

"I've come back to Iowa one more time to ask for your vote," Obama said. "I came back to ask you to help us finish what we've started. Because this is where our movement for change began. Right here. Right here."

"I want to thank you all for being here tonight," First Lady Michelle Obama said. "I mean, as you know this is a pretty emotional time for us, because this is the final event of my husband's final campaign. So this is the last time that he and I will be onstage together at a campaign rally. And that's why we wanted to come here to Iowa tonight because truly this is where it all began, right here.

Obama leads for New Hampshire's four electoral votes by two points.

Colorado has nine electoral votes to offer and Obama leads there as well by 1.5 points.

Virginia's 13 electoral votes could easily go either way, but the president has a razor thin, insignificant lead over Romney. In 2008, the president beat his challenger by six points.

In Wisconsin, a new Public Policy Polling survey found that Obama leads Romney 51 percent to 48 percent. This three point advantage is up from two points based on the same poll three weeks ago.

Mason-Dixon, NBC/WSJ/Marist and Marquette University polls all have Obama up by an average of three points.

Rasmussen Reports latest tracking poll shows that 49 percent of likely voters in Wisconsin appear to give both candidates the state's 10 electoral votes.

On Tuesday, an exclusive report by Think Progress claims that the Romney campaign is "training poll watchers to mislead voters In wisconsin."

"Documents from a recent Romney poll watcher training obtained by ThinkProgress contain several misleading or untrue claims about the rights of Wisconsin voters," Scott Keyes of Think Progress wrote. "A source passed along the following packet of documents, which was distributed to volunteers at a Romney campaign training in Racine on October 25th. In total, six such trainings were held across the state in the past two weeks."

In Nevada, the president is up by nearly three points.