Poll shows Mitt Romney tied with Pres. Obama

Published: Tuesday, June 7 2011 10:46 a.m. MDT

Mitt Romney leads Pres. Barack Obama among registered voters in new polling by the Washington Post and ABC News.

In a story posted on its website Monday night, the Post reports, "New Post-ABC numbers show Obama leading five of six potential Republican presidential rivals tested in the poll. But he is in a dead heat with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. … Among all Americans, Obama and Romney are knotted at 47 percent each, and among registered voters, the former governor is numerically ahead, 49 percent to 46 percent."

A Fox News headline about the Post-ABC poll proclaimed Tuesday, "Disastrous New Poll for Obama ... Could Lose Presidency Over the Economy."

In a USA Today article published Tuesday that also mentions the new polling, Romney says that right now his "greatest enemy is overexposure. People get tired of seeing the same person day in and day out."

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Anne26

West Jordan, UT

Dear Republican Party,

Please don't spend the primaries beating each other up. And please, please don't nominate Sarah Palin for anything. Honestly, she is embarrassing.

Thank you.

10:12 a.m. June 7, 2011
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A Guy With A Brain

Enid, OK

Romney:

- Valedictorian at BYU

- Baker's scholar at Harvard

- Master's degrees in business and law

- enormously successful in private business and now worth between $200 and $300 million (compare this to More..

10:46 a.m. June 7, 2011
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ute alumni

Tengoku, UT

To put Obama in the same realm as Mitt is laughable. o has never really done anything of substance in his life. Community organizer..... teaching a few classes at a liberal university, state senator.... needed to get a jon way back then,US senator More..

10:13 a.m. June 7, 2011
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