Poll: Obama-Romney in 2012 Dead Heat
The Hill reports:
A new poll shows President Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in a statistical dead heat for the White House.
The GOP's Romney edges Obama by one percentage point, 45-44 percent, in a Quinnipiac University poll of registered voters released Monday. Among other top GOP contenders, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee trails Obama 46-44 percent and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is behind by eight, 48-40 percent.
The poll suggests a clear front runner has yet to emerge from the GOP field. Palin, Romney and Huckabee, the three leading challengers in the poll, only receive 19, 18 and 17 percent support respectively from Republican voters.
In a good omen for Republicans, voters prefer to elect a new president over keeping Obama 49-43 percent. Independents backed Romney over Obama 46-35 percent and Huckabee over the president 47-40 percent.
But a plurality of independents preferred Obama to Palin, the 2008 vice presidential nominee, who has a 51 percent disapproval rating compared to Obama's 48-48 percent approval-disapproval rating.
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