Obama and Casey Keeps Lead in Latest Pennsylvania Poll

"President Barack Obama maintained a strong advantage in Pennsylvania in the latest Franklin & Marshall College survey, while Bob Casey held an even larger lead in a Senate race in which many voters haven't formed a strong impression of either candidate."

"Less than two years after Pennsylvania voters joined in 2010's national Republican tide, the results provide further ammunition for arguments that the state is shifting from its traditional battleground status to one more favorable for Democrats. Mr. Obama led his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, by 48 percent to 36 percent."

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"Mr. Obama's lead in the state was also somewhat larger than his margin in other recent polls, but it was accompanied by somewhat lackluster favorability numbers. Forty-seven percent said they had either a strong or somewhat favorable view of the president, who carried the state easily in 2008, while 44 percent said they held an unfavorable view of him."

"Mr. Romney had a sharply negative ratio of favorable-to-unfavorable responses -- 27 percent positive, 55 percent negative -- but 1 voter in 4 had yet to form an opinion on the former Massachusetts governor, weeks after he effectively secured the GOP nomination."

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