Romney has weakest favorability rating on record for a presumptive presidential nominee since 1984

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Mitt Romney is “underwater.”

. . . a new ABC News-Washington Post poll shows that 35 percent of Americans see Romney favorably compared to 47 percent who have an unfavorable opinion of him.

President Obama, on the other hand, gets a “favorable” rating from 56 percent of Americans and an “unfavorable” one from 40 percent.

The key point, according to ABC News pollster Gary Langer, is this: Romney is holding onto “the weakest favorability rating on record for a presumptive presidential nominee in ABC News/Washington Post polls since 1984. He’s the first likely nominee to be seen more unfavorably than favorably.” http://abcn.ws/J43omW

As the gender wars have raged over the last week, the new poll also underscores Romney’s problem with women voters, among whom his favorability is lowest — just 27 percent of women see him favorably. By contrast, Obama gets favorable marks from 58 percent of women.


read: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/mitt-romneys-favorability-gap-the-note/

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