Obama beating Romney by 16 points in Michigan
By BYRON TAU |
2/15/12 3:39 PM EST
President Obama is leading Mitt Romney handily in Michigan, according to a new survey from the Democratic-leaning pollster PPP.
Michigan is looking more and more like it won't be in the swing state column this fall. PPP's newest poll there finds Barack Obama leading the entire Republican field by double digits.
The biggest surprise in the numbers might be how badly Obama is beating Mitt Romney- he leads him by 16 points at 54-38. That's a major departure from PPP's previous 3 Michigan President polls, which found Obama ahead by only 4-7 points. Romney's seen a major decline in his personal favorability in the state over the last 6 months from 39/43 to now 29/58. His numbers have dropped across the board but the most striking shift is with independents. He's gone from a +14 spread with them at 48/34 to a -20 one at 32/52.
Romney was born and raised in Michigan and his father was a two-term governor of the state. Still, Romney hasn't spent any significant amount of time in state since his boyhood. And Michigan hasn't voted for a Republican for President since 1988 — when voters rejected the last Massachusetts governor to run for president, Michael Dukakis.
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