CNN Poll: Obama Approval At 50, Leads All GOP Challengers

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CNN Poll: Obama Approval At 50, Leads All GOP Challengers

A new CNN poll shows President Obama with an approval rating in the fifties for the first time since May of last year, the weeks after Osama bin Laden was killed, as 48 percent disapprove. Like other polling out this week, Obama's improved rating translates into wider margins in matchups with his potential Republican challengers this fall among registered voters -- Obama has a five point lead on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (Romney had lead in February's CNN polling), seven point leads on former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) and a 13 point advantage on former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

From CNN:

The survey suggests that the contentious Republican primary season has decreased enthusiasm among Republican voters, virtually erasing the "enthusiasm gap" that promised to provide the ultimate GOP presidential nominee with a major advantage in the fall. In October, 64% of Republicans said that they were extremely or very enthusiastic about voting for president, compared to only 43% of Democratic voters. GOP enthusiasm since that time has tumbled 13 points, to 51%, virtually the same as the Democrats' level of enthusiasm.

Here's the trend in our TPM Poll Average since the first votes were cast in the Republican presidential primary race.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/cnn-poll-obama-approval-at-50-leads-all

PPP: Obama Comfortably Tops All GOP Foes In Michigan

The latest Public Policy Polling (D) survey of Michigan shows President Barack Obama on solid footing in the Wolverine State.

Obama tops all four Republican presidential candidates by wide margins in the statewide poll's general election matchups. Perhaps most notably, the survey shows the president outpolling Mitt Romney, who was born and raised in Michigan, 54 percent to 38 percent. The PPP survey dovetails with several other polls out of Michigan released this week, which have shown Rick Santorum asserting himself as the favorite to win the primary in Romney's erstwhile stomping ground.

Obama has clearly been bolstered by the successful bailouts of the U.S. automotive industry, as evidenced by the 53 percent of PPP's respondents who said the president has been "good for Michigan's economy." The TPM Poll Average also shows Obama building a comfortable lead over Romney in Michigan, where the two were within five percentage points of each other as recently as December.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/ppp-obama-comfortably-tops-all-gop-candidates-in?ref=fpb

Guess Detroit doesn't agree with Mitt's bankruptcy statement.

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. good

[monmouth]

2. That's going to be a killer for Wolfe to have to report...LOL...n/t

[gateley]

3. Haha! nt

[grahamhgreen]

4. Seems to me like the populist/progressive speeches are helping.

If he actually enacts some real FDR style policies, he will crush them!