A month ago, when Barack Obama had (somewhat stunningly) broken out to some of his biggest leads against Mitt Romney in battleground states like Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, some pundits attributed those gains to the large gender gap that shows the Democrats doing better than usual against Republicans with women voters.
Whether that was accurate or not, the fact now is that in two of those same three states, new polls by Quinnipiac University released Thursday morning show that Romney has closed the gap significantly.
(We'll insert the standard caveat here about how polls taken half a year from the election are of questionable importance.)
In Florida, Quinnipiac has Romney up by a point (44-43). That's a sharp reversal from a month ago, when Obama led the former Massachusetts governor by 7 points (49-42).