President Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney are effectively tied among likely voters on the question of “having the strong leadership qualities needed to be president,” according to the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal national poll. Obama gets 45 percent to Romney’s 44 percent, while 8 percent say they’d be equally strong.
But that wasn’t the case two weeks ago — in NBC/WSJ’s mid-October poll, that question stood at 44 percent for Romney, 40 percent for Obama, and 13 percent saying both would be strong among likely voters.
The president has consistently held the lead on the strong leader characteristic in the PollTracker Average.
