Ohio and Virginia Exit Polls Should Provide Some Encouragement for Mitt Romney

By a very narrow margin (1%) in Ohio and a larger margin in Virginia (8%) - exit poll respondents so far believe Mitt Romney would handle the economy better than Barack Obama.

Of course, the economy is not the only issue in the election, but you'd have to be deaf to not know it is the most important.

Favorable / unfavorable opinion of the Obama Administration was almost exactly split in the two states.

As expected, both states appear to be close.  Both states are must-wins for Mitt Romney, in my electoral map.