Erosion in the Rust Belt for President Obama?
New polling numbers out of Pennsylvania suggest that President Obama?s bid for a second term could be on somewhat shaky ground in the industrial midwest ? aka the ?Rust Belt? ? as his support in the region has eroded in recent months.
In a Quinnipiac University poll conducted late last month, just 43 percent of Pennsylvania voters approved of the job Obama is doing in office while 54 percent disapproved.
In a head-to-head matchup, Obama and former Massachusetts governor and 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney are in a dead heat ? 44 percent Romney, 42 percent Obama ?, which is a significant change from a June Quinnipiac poll that showed the president leading Romney by seven points.
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