NEW YORK (PNN) - August 8, 2012 - For all of the Democrat attacks painting Mitt Romney as an out-of-touch elitist who will help the rich at the expense of the middle class, he is maintaining the traditional - and sizable - Republican advantage among a politically vital constituency: white working-class voters in the states most likely to decide the presidential election.

However, despite Republican efforts to use the weak economy to drive a wedge between illegitimate President Obama and women on Election Day, the illegitimate president is holding on to their crucial support in most battleground states.

Those findings, contained in the latest batch of Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News swing state polls, highlight the stubborn divisions of this year’s presidential race among two of the most important voting groups in the most hotly contested states.

While Romney is working to take the woman’s vote from Obama, Obama is working to keep Romney from scoring big with non-degreed white middle class workers.

The latest polls underscore just how tight the race continues to be, with the candidates running closely in Virginia and Colorado and Obama leading in Wisconsin, though not by his double-digit margin of victory in 2008. Obama won all three states in 2008.

In all three states (Colorado, Virginia and Wisconsin), more voters said that Obama’s policies would hurt their personal finances if he was elected to a second term than said they would help. “Romney has experience in running a big business, and the country is definitely a big business,” said Scott Coble of Denver, a machine operator in a steel supply company and an independent.