Final national NBC/WSJ poll: Obama 48%, Romney 47% With just two days until Election Day, President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney are running neck and neck nationally, according to the final national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll before the election. Obama gets support from 48 percent of likely voters, while Romney gets 47 percent. In the NBC/WSJ poll released two weeks ago, the two candidates were deadlocked at 47 percent each. While both Obama and Romney are running virtually even in this national poll, a majority of surveys from the battleground states - especially in the crucial battlegrounds of Iowa, Ohio and Wisconsin - show the president with a slight advantage. The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted Nov. 1-3 of 1,475 likely voters (including 443 cell phone-only respondents), and it has a margin of error of plus-minus 2.55 percentage points. The rest of the survey will be published at 6:30 p.m.