Details on the latest presidential poll numbers. With Election Day fast approaching, Mitt Romney remains in the lead over President Barack Obama. According to the latest Gallup poll on Monday Oct.

Latest information on Rasmussen's presidential polls. The latest presidential polls show Mitt Romney remaining in the lead against President Obama.

A looming Hurricane Sandy has brought a new level of uncertainty onto the 2012 presidential campaign trail, which will also serve to alter early voting opportunities just a mere nine days before Election Day.

As Hurricane Sandy makes its way toward the East Coast, storm crews are currently putting hundreds of sensors in place to predict the flooding toll within the region. Federal agencies along with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) will be attaching the 150 storm surge sensors to several poles on piers that will span from Massachusetts to Chesapeake Bay. The plan is being put into place in order to track wind gusts, rainfall and water levels along the east coast. Eight of those sensors will be recording the storm-tide in current time as it hits land.