Poll: Obama job approval rising, race still tight (Obama 52% Romney 37%)

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Poll: Obama job approval rising, race still tight (Obama 52% Romney 37%)

Americans are feeling markedly better about the country's future and about Barack Obama's job performance, but the president's re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney remains neck-and-neck as Election Day in November creeps ever closer, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.

Buoyed by political conventions last month, Obama's approval rating is back above 50 percent for the first time since May, and the share of Americans who think the country is moving in the right direction is at its highest level since just after the death of Usama bin Laden in May 2011.

Romney lost his pre-convention edge on the economy as his campaign was distracted by criticism of his hasty response to the Obama administration's handling of the eruption of violence in Egypt and Libya last week and his failure to mention the war in Afghanistan or thank the troops in his speech at the Republican convention

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[Conservative]

The poll results vividly underscore the importance that turnout will play in determining the victor: Among all adults, Obama has a commanding lead, favored by 52 percent of Americans to just 37 percent for Romney. Yet among those most likely to vote, the race is tight.

Obama is supported by 47 percent of likely voters and Romney by 46 percent, promising an all-out fight to the finish by the two campaigns to stoke enthusiasm among core supporters and dominate get-out-the-vote operations.

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[g5000]

"The share of Americans who think the country is moving in the right direction is at its highest level since just after the death of Usama bin Laden in May 2011. "



Yeah, it's way up there at 37% now!

Thirty-seven percent (37%) of Likely U.S. Voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, September 9.

That’s up six points from the week before and the first time optimism has been this high since late June 2009.

Right Direction or Wrong Track - Rasmussen Reports™

 

[Liability]

The misleading figures in the thread headline reflect REGISTERED, not LIKELY, voters.

It is, in reality an almost perfectly dead heat with the likely voters.