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Poll: Gallup Poll shows big bounce for President Obama coming out of 2012 DNC

Gallup has posted its latest poll findings today and found a big bounce for Obama from this year’s convention.

They show a very strong one-day 3% hike in his approval rating to 52%–his highest mark in many months.  This means that he gained 7% in the past three days.

In addition, the new numbers show a 48%-45% lead over Mitt Romney.  That’s a change of 3% from last week. 

And that’s a 7-day poll average with only the first couple days of the DNC factored in, so it should go up a bit more over the next few days.

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Gallup poll results on President Obama’s support of gay marriage

From Gallup: A majority of Americans, 60%, say President Barack Obama’s newly announced support for same-sex marriage will make no difference to their vote. Twice as many say it will make them less likely to vote for Obama as say more likely, though roughly half of the “less likely” group are Republicans who probably would not support Obama anyway.

• 13% say the President’s support for marriage equality makes them more likely to vote for him
• 26% say the President’s support for marriage equality makes them less likely to vote for him
• 60% say he President’s support for marriage equality makes no difference in how they plan to vote

The results are based on a May 10 USA Today/Gallup poll conducted in response to Obama’s May 9 announcement that he supports legalizing gay marriage. Obama is the first president to publicly support gay marriage while in office.

The poll finds 51% of Americans approving of his position, essentially matching the 50% of Americans who support gay marriage in general, and similar to his 49% overall job approval rating.

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Gallup poll: President Obama leads Romney in swing states

In the first Gallup Swing States Poll since Romney became the presumptive GOP nominee, President Obama leads Romney 47%-45%.

Romney also seems to lag in the enthusiasm department: among who see themselves as “very” or “extremely” enthusiastic for their candidate, President Obama leads Romney 55%-46%.

The enthusiasm gap could be significant on election day in terms of “getting out the vote.”

We’ll see…

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Large majority of Americans support “Buffett Rule”

A new Gallup poll shows President Obama’s proposed “Buffett Rule,” which raises the marginal tax rate on those Americans making over a million dollars a year, is widely supported by Americans.

A 60 percent majority of Americans polled support the idea, while 37 percent don’t.

Independents support the measure 63-33, Democrats at an even higher rate of 74-24, while Republicans are the only voting bloc to oppose the idea 43-54.

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Gallup poll: President Obama leads Romney in swing states 48%-39%

 

President Barack Obama has expanded his lead over Mitt Romney to nine points among independents in swing states, according to a recent Gallup poll.

The president now leads the former Massachusetts governor 48 percent to 39 percent. Among the same group in February, Obama lead Romney 49 percent to 43 percent.

“The movement toward Obama is essentially due to independents’ changing preferences, because Democrats’ and Republicans’ preferences have been highly stable,” Gallup said in a release accompanying the survey results.

The poll was taken between March 20th and 26th of voters in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Overall, the president leads Romney in those states 51 percent to 42 percent.

Independents and those swing states are the place to look kids.  Don’t worry about California, New York, Texas or Tennessee – we know how those will go.  Watch the swing states and the independents in those states.

Just saying….

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Americans Favor Almost All Proposals in Obama’s Jobs Plan

From Gallup: Americans agree with a number of the job-creation proposals included in Obama’s jobs plan — specifically including the ideas of providing tax cuts to small businesses; providing additional funds for hiring teachers, police officers, and firefighters; and giving tax breaks to corporations for hiring the long-term unemployed.

Slightly less than half favor reducing Social Security taxes for workers and employers.