Polls of the Week: April 27
Mitt Romney trails President Obama in polls, plus more.
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Americans Weigh In - Americans struggle to make ends meet, Mitt Romney trails President Obama in polls, U.S. homeownership drops, plus more. —Britt Middleton
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It’s the Economy - When it comes to handling the economy, 50 percent of Americans say they have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in President Obama to do or recommend the right thing, compared to 42 percent who have the same belief about GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney, a Gallup poll published on April 20 finds. (Photo: UPI/Ron Sachs/Pool /LANDOV)
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First Ladies Rock! - When it comes to favorability ratings, Michelle Obama and Ann Romney fare better than their husbands, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll published April 25. Obama’s 69 percent favorability rating is 13 points higher than the president’s. Romney’s 40 percent rating is five points higher than her husband’s and 17 points lower than the former Massachusetts governor’s unfavorable rating. (Photos from left: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images, JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
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Americans Feeling Less Financially Stable - In Gallup’s annual Economy and Personal Finance poll, released on April 25, 60 percent of Americans said they have enough financial income to live comfortably, the lowest percentage since the survey began in 2002. Thirty-nine percent of respondents said they do not. (Photo: Getty Images)
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U.S. Homeownership Drops - In addition to Americans feeling less comfortable in their finances, in a Gallup poll, released on April 26, fewer Americans said they owned their home (62 percent), the lowest since 2001. Despite this, 70 percent of people said that now was “a good time to buy a home,” an increase from 58 percent in 2008. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Obama vs. Romney - Mitt Romney, the de facto Republican presidential nominee, is kicking off his general election challenge just six points behind President Obama, according to the results of an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released on April 20. (Photos from left: Ethan Miller/Getty Images, EPA/CJ GUNTHER /LANDOV)
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Church and State - The nation’s religious voters support presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney by 54 to 37 percent, a Gallup daily tracking poll, released on April 25, finds. But Obama leads Romney among moderately religious voters by 54 to 40 percent. (Photo: Getty Images)
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George Zimmerman - A Public Policy Polling survey of Florida voters published on April 23 found that 73 percent of Democrats and 49 percent of independents believe that George Zimmerman should have been charged with the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, while Republicans oppose the charge by 25 to 39 percent. In addition, Democrats (49 percent), independents (31 percent), Latinos (48 percent) and African-Americans (73 percent) believe that Zimmerman is guilty. (Photo: AP Photo/Gary W. Green, Orlando Sentinel, Pool)
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The Face of Joblessness - In a Gallup survey released April 23, 68 percent of respondents said they know someone personally who has been laid off in the last six months, up from 54 percent in 2008, the last time Gallup gave the survey. (Photo: GettyImages)
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Female Veterans in Combat - A Pew survey of veterans in the post 9-11 military revealed that women were less likely to have served in combat (30 percent) compared to men (57 percent). According to the survey, released on April 27, female soldiers were also less likely (35 percent) to have served with someone who was killed while performing their duties when compared to men (50 percent). (Photo: Stephen Morton/Getty Images)