The latest Wisconsin polling from Rasmussen Reports, taken yesterday and released today, shows Mitt Romney and President Obama tied at 49 percent apiece among likely voters.  A week earlier, Obama led by 2 points in Rasmussen’s Wisconsin polling — 50 to 48 percent — so Romney is on the rise in the Badger State.  Indeed, in its three prior polls taken this fall in Wisconsin, Rasmussen had always shown Obama to be up by either 2 or 3 percentage points.

The updated tally of projected electoral votes based on Rasmussen’s state-by-state polling is now Romney 261, Obama 243 — with the Big Ten trio of Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa all tied.