Gallup poll: Romney & Obama tied
A new Gallup poll finds Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama statistically tied among registered voters heading into November’s general election.
According to Gallup, 47 percent of voters polled are backing Romney, compared to 45 percent who prefer Obama. That’s well within the poll’s margin of error, which is plus or minus 3 percent.
A new Franklin & Marshall College poll of likely Republican voters in Pennsylvania finds Santorum has lost major ground to Mitt Romney in his home state.
The two are now statistically tied ahead of the state’s Apr. 24 primary. Santorum leads Romney by just 2 points—30 percent to 28 percent—result which are well within the poll’s plus or minus 4 percent margin of error.
Mitt Romney’s approval rating up among most conservative Republicans:
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll released Tuesday finds 64 percent of Republicans and independents who identify as very conservative now view Romney favorably—a solid 21 point increase in three weeks.
A new CNN/Time Magazine poll of likely Republican voters in the state finds the former Massachusetts governor with a nearly 20-point lead over his closest rival, Rick Santorum. According to the poll, Romney now leads in the state with 37 percent support, a 17-point jump since last month.
"I do not know how long it will take for public opinion polls to reflect Cain’s weakened position in the presidential race, but the prediction markets have spoken: There is more than a 96 percent likelihood that Cain will fall in the public-opinion polls before Republicans cast their real votes in the 2012 primaries and caucuses."
"All in all, Democrats remain decidedly less white, more female, more liberal, less religious, and less likely to be married than the general population. Liberals and nonwhites have come to make up a slightly greater percentage of the Democratic base since 2008, perhaps indicating that the decline in Democratic affiliation since 2009 was proportionately greater among conservatives and whites. The 2012 elections will thus likely show the same demographic voting patterns that prevailed in 2008, and that in many cases have been evident in presidential elections going back further in time."
Most Republicans shrug at Cain allegations, according to poll
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has spent the week battling accusations that he sexually harassed female employees while he was president of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. But according to the first major poll released since the story broke on Sunday, most Republican-leaning voters say the new revelations have not changed their opinion of the candidate.
In a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted since the first story was published, 70 percent of the Republicans said that the allegations would not change their voting decision. Twenty-three percent said the story made them less likely to support him and 4 percent said they were now more likely.
Only 3 percent of Floridians polled over the weekend said they would vote for Texas Gov. Rick Perry,Political Wire reports. According to an InsiderAdvantage/Florida Times-Union poll of likely Florida voters, Perry has plummeted from front-runner to the bottom tier in the Sunshine State. Support for Perry, who once held a national double-digit lead over his closest competitor, began to decline after his poor debate performance Orlando, Florida last month. Perry led in Florida just a few weeks ago according to a Quinnipiac University poll unveiled on Sept. 22.
A new Gallup Poll finds that 81 percent of Americans are “dissatisfied” with how the country is being governed—the highest number ever recorded since Gallup first posed the question to the American public 40 years ago. More Republicans than Democrats are unhappy, but the total includes a clear majority of both parties: Sixty-five percent of Democrats and 92 percent of Republicans say they are “dissatisfied.”
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"The race for the Republican nomination is increasingly becoming a two-man race between Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, as Michele Bachmann’s poll numbers continue to drop among national GOP primary voters.
A new Gallup Poll of likely Republican voters finds Perry leading Romney by 7 points, 31 percent to 24 percent, in the GOP nomination race."
