President Barack Obama’s lead in Michigan has inched up to 5 points, a new poll released Thursday shows.
Obama leads MItt Romney, 49 percent to 44 percent, among likely Michigan voters in the latest automated survey from in-state pollster, Mitchell Research & Communications. Mitchell’s previous two polls showed a dead heat between Obama and Romney in the state. Obama clung to a 1-point edge in the June survey, while Romney led by the same minuscule margin last month.
The latest poll, conducted on Monday, shows that Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan has had no immediate impact on the race in Michigan. Obama’s lead remains the same even when the names of Ryan and Vice President Joe Biden are included in the survey question.
After several polls showed an increasingly tight race in the Great Lakes State earlier in the summer, Obama appears to have re-gained his footing to re-emerge as the favorite there. The PollTracker Average currently shows Michigan favoring the president, who leads Romney, 48.9 percent to 43.8 percent.
