What?

A new CNN/ORC International poll shows that the race for the battleground state of Ohio remains very close, just a week and a half before Election Day. In the survey released Friday, President Barack Obama holds a four-point advantage over Republican nominee Mitt Romney, with 50% of likely Ohio voters questioned in the poll backing the president and 46% supporting the former Massachusetts governor. Ohio carries 18 electoral votes. Obama's margin is within the survey's sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. The survey was conducted Tuesday through Thursday, entirely after Monday's final presidential debate. CNN Headline News email

Read that first paragraph again. Someone did a poll encompassing the glove that is supposed to have told the pollsters that the presidential race has narrowed in a single state? Is that what I’m reading in that first paragraph?

What is the point in asking people outside the state in question about how the presidential race progresses in that particular state? Does this make sense to anyone else?

I want a breakdown of who was asked? Were these expats? Was anyone in the state of Ohio consulted? Was this outsourced to India or China or something?