NBC/WSJ: Obama By 3 Points Nationally, 57 Percent Say Economy Is In Recovery

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Presdient Obama leads Republican Mitt Romney by 3 points amongst likely voters nationally, 49 percent to Romney’s 46 percent, in a new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.

“For Obama, he’s ahead at a time of growing optimism about the economy and nation’s direction,” NBC’s FirstRead blog wrote. “For Romney, it’s a ‘margin of error’ contest that comes as interest in the upcoming election lags among key Democratic constituencies versus four years ago.” There is evidence in the poll that Americans are feeling better about the economy — 57 percent of registered voters said the nation is recovering while 39 percent said it was not. Just a two weeks ago NBC/WSJ asked the same question, and only 51 percent said it was recovering, while 45 percent said the opposite. More from NBC:

The poll – which was conducted Sept. 26-30 – comes after intense scrutiny and TV-ad attacks on Romney’s “47 percent” comment, in which he said that percentage of Americans don’t pay income taxes, are dependent on government, and believe that they are victims.

After hearing a full description of that comment, 45 percent of registered voters said it gave them a more negative impression of the GOP presidential nominee, versus 23 percent who had a more positive view.

Obama leads the overall PollTracker Average of the national race by 3.8 percent.

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