Ten polls have been concluded since Rick Santorum effectively ended the Republican primary by suspending his presidential campaign on April 10th. And despite some seemingly outlier results (CNN has President Obama up 9 points on Mitt Romney, 52 percent to 43 percent), they all paint a strikingly similar picture of the electorate as the general election race begins. Here are five things common to almost every poll:

1. The race is close: If we average out the ten polls, including CNN’s, Obama has a statistically insignificant 2.2 point lead on Romney.

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