The Sunshine State's 29 Electoral College votes could go for Mitt Romney tonight based on latest polling figures.
Florida continues to be a swing state that could go for either Romney or President Barack Obama but polling numbers and projections might have it go red for the Republicans.
President Obama won Florida in 2008 with 51 percent to Arizona Senator John McCain's 48.2 percent, a difference of 2.8 percent. Now in 2012, averages in the state have Romney leading by 1.5 percent.
According to Gravis Marketing, Romney and Obama are tied when polling 1,060 likely voters from Nov. 4 to Nov. 5. The presidential candidates received 49 percent of the poll.
Gravis Marketing noted, "President Obama holds a five percentage point lead with early voters (52 to 47 percent), while Mitt Romney leads by 4 percentage points with those who have not yet cast their ballot (50 to 46 percent). Half of voters (50 percent) say they have already voted in Florida."
However, the 1.5 percent average for Romney might have come courtesy of the Florida Times-Union and InsiderAdvantage poll released on Nov. 4. The poll features Romney with a five percent lead over Obama when surveying 437 likely voters.
In the poll, Romney received 52 percent to 47 percent with a margin of error of 4.6 percent.
It is not all bad news for Obama, as the latest Public Policy Poll (PPP) has Obama ahead, by one percentage point.
In the final PPP before Election Day, Obama received 50 percent to Romney's 49 percent. The margin of error is 3.2 percent among the 955 likely voters surveyed.
Obama won Florida in 2008 but the Sunshine State did go for the Republican presidential candidate in 2000 and 2004 elections for George W. Bush, but went back to the Democrats in 1996 for Bill Clinton after going for George H.W. Bush in 1992.
According to Real Clear Politics, Florida will go in favor of Romney.
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