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Posted Aug 25, 2011 by Catherine Whittenburg, Tallahassee bureau
Updated Aug 25, 2011 at 06:24 PM
Barack Obama trails Mitt Romney in Florida and is in a “dead heat” with Rick Perry according to new Sachs/Mason-Dixon presidential poll results released this afternoon.
The survey of 625 registered Florida voters taken Aug. 18-22 also shows that disapproval of Obama’s job performance is growing. Fifty-six percent said they disapproved—up from 51 percent in April—with 41 percent approving.
Among the poll’s findings about hypothetical 2012 match-ups:
-51 percent of Florida voters would choose Romney; 43 percent would pick Obama
-46 percent would vote for Perry; compared with 45 percent for Obama
-46 percent would pick Obama; 44 percent would choose Michele Bachmann
The poll also found Romney leading the rest of the pack of GOP hopefuls, as he did in the Sachs/Mason-Dixon April poll. Here are the latest numbers:
Mitt Romney 28 percent
Rick Perry 21 percent
Michelle Bachman 13 percent
Herman Cain 7 percent
Newt Gingrich 5 percent
Ron Paul 4 percent
Rick Santorum 2 percent
Jon Huntsman -
Someone Else 3 percent
Undecided 17 percent
The poll has a margin of error of 4 percentage points. It includes an over-sampling of 300 likely Republican primary voters, who were asked about the GOP primary race only; margin of error for that sample is 5.8 percent.
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