Gallup reports that Mitt Romney leads Barack Obama 47% to 45% among registered voters in the inaugural Gallup Daily tracking results for April 11-15.
Other interesting results from the first Gallup Daily tracking poll of registered voters' general election preferences include:
- Both Obama and Romney are supported by 90% of their respective partisans.
- Romney voters are more likely to vote 80% to 76%.
- Romney does better among the critical Independent voters 45% to 39%.
Gallup's previous Obama v. Romney match up conducted March 25-26, showed Obama with a slight 49% to 45% lead over Romney. The change is similar to the results of the Rasmussen and Fox News polls reported over the weekend. pretty much what Scott Rasmussen predicted would happen when Rick Santorum called it quits.
In the accompanying video, Rasmussen says Obama and Romney are close with about 10 - 12 percent of the voters not committed to either candidate. Obama has a paltry 22% approval rating among those voters. According to Rasmussen, now that Romney is the presumed Republican nominee, the campaign is all about Obama and whether he can defend his record. Watch the video:
The Gallup Daily tracking of registered voters' general election preferences will be reported daily based upon continuous five-day rolling averages. Gallup started the general election polling on Wednesday, April 11, after Rick Santorum suspended his campaign.
According to Frank Newport, Gallup's Editor in Chief, polling done in the spring of an election year is not necessarily a reliable predictor for the election outcome.
Gallup's daily tracking poll has a margin of error of ±3 percentage points.
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