Obama’s Popularity Dips Underwater; For Romney, a Faint Favorability Bounce

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By Gary Langer

Sep 4, 2012 6:30pm

 

Obama’s Popularity Dips Underwater; For Romney, a Faint Favorability Bounce

 

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Barack Obama approaches his nomination for a second term with the lowest pre-convention personal popularity of an incumbent president in ABC News/Washington Post polls since the 1980s. He’s also at his lowest of the year among registered voters, with trouble among women.

Just 47 percent of registered voters in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll see Obama favorably overall, down 7 percentage points from his recent peak in April, while 49 percent rate him unfavorably. He’s numerically underwater in this group for the first time since February.

See PDF with full results, charts and tables here.

The decline has occurred entirely among women registered voters – from

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("Faint": that's a commonly used word used in statistical reporting, right along with underwater.)^sarcasm