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President Barack Obama holds a 9-point lead over Republican challenger

Mitt Romney, according to a CNN/ORC International poll released Monday, thanks in part to the perception that the president is more likeable and more in touch with the problems facing women and middle-class Americans.

The poll indicates a pronounced gender gap that benefits Obama, who holds a 16-point advantage over his challenger among women and a 3-point advantage among men.

The poll also found that 7 in 10 Americans favor Obama's proposed change to the federal income tax rate for people who make more than $1 million a year -- the so-called Buffett Rule. The proposal is particularly popular among Democrats and independents, but a small majority of Republicans also supported it.

The Senate is expected to take a procedural vote later Monday on the Buffett Rule, which is expected to fall short of the 60 votes needed to move it to the Senate floor.

The poll was conducted Friday through Sunday, after former Sen. Rick Santorum suspended his bid for the GOP nomination. Ref. CNN

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Romney Leads Obama 47-45 in First Gallup 2012 Poll

In the first Gallup poll taken comparing the two candidates expected to face off in the 2012 presidential election, 47 percent of Americans support former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney while 45 percent back pro-abortion President Barack Obama.

Gallup Daily tracking results from April 11-15 show 90 percent of Republicans favor Romney while 90 percent of Democrats back Obama. When it comes to the crucial group of independents who traditionally decide presidential elections, Romney leads 45-39 percent. Ref. Source 8

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Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's popularity is starting to rebound as the divisiveness of the Republican primaries subsides, according to a CNN/ORC International poll released Tuesday.

The survey showed 44% give Romney a favorable rating, up 10 percentage points since February, which was during some of the most acrimonious sniping among GOP candidates. Romney's unfavorable rating fell 11 points, from 54% to 43%, over the same period.

The poll also showed 53% of those surveyed say they plan to give Romney a second look once the primaries are over, while 45% say they know enough about the former Massachusetts governor to decide whether he would be a good president.

The same poll shows that President Barack Obama's favorability rating -- a measure of his personal popularity -- is 56%, but the approval rating of his performance in office is 49%. No president since Harry Truman in 1948 has won re-election with an approval rating below 50%. Ref. CNN

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Romney sweeps five states, readies to battle Obama
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Mitt Romney has swept five Republican primaries to effectively clinch the Republican nomination to challenge President Barack Obama in the November general election.
Source: Massachusetts News

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Romney closes gap with Obama in upcoming US presidential race, finds poll
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Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has closed the gap with President Barack Obama during the post week, according to poll.
Source: Massachusetts News

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Obama plunges into campaign, tears into Romney

Romney and his "friends in Congress think the same bad ideas will lead to a different result, or they're just hoping you won't remember what happened the last time you tried it their way," the president told thousands of cheering partisans at what aides insisted was his first full-fledged political rally of the election year. Ref. Source 9

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Campaign 2012 Begins With Romney, Obama Tied in Polls

President Barack Obama kicked off his re-election campaign over the weekend with a stop in Ohio, where he rallied a half-empty arena of supporters. The lack of voter enthusiasm for Obama is seen in new polls showing him in a tie or trailing Mitt Romney.

A new poll shows Romney leading 48-47 nationally, that he has opened up a 10 percentage point lead with independent voters, 48-38 percent, and that he leads by 6 percentage points among those voters "extremely likely" to vote for president in November. The new Politico/George Washington University Battleground Poll finds Republicans are rapidly getting behind Romney as he takes on the pro-abortion president, with 91 percent supporting Romney and a slightly smaller percentage of Democrats backing Obama. Ref. Source 6

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Former Rival Rick Santorum Endorses Romney
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Former U.S. presidential candidate Rick Santorum has endorsed Mitt Romney, his one-time bitter rival for the 2012 Republican Party nomination.
Source: Massachusetts News