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Apr 17
2012 |
Romney: Record Low Favorability in Poll |
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Mitt Romney has emerged from the Republican primary season with the weakest favorability rating on record for a presumptive presidential nominee in ABC News/Washington Post polls since 1984, trailing a resurgent Barack Obama in personal popularity by 21 percentage points.
Thirty-five percent of Americans see Romney favorably, while 47 percent have an unfavorable opinion of the former Massachusetts governor. He's the first likely nominee to be underwater – seen more unfavorably than favorably – in ABC/Post polls in eight presidential primary seasons across the past 28 years.
Romney's gender gap in vote preferences in an ABC/Post poll last week - he trailed Obama by 19 percentage points among women – is reflected in his new favorability scores as well. Just 27 percent of women see Romney favorably, compared with 44 percent of men – his lowest rating to date among women, and highest among men, in a dozen ABC/Post polls since September.
Obama, by contrast, has no such gap between the sexes; he's seen favorably by 56 percent of Americans overall, including 58 percent of women and 53 percent of men, surpassing Romney in both groups.
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| Source:http://feeds.abcnews.com/click.phdo?i=011b8252b6fb20698ec618b5e238916d |
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