Mitt Romney’s campaign has sought to highlight the recent tension in the Middle East as an example of President Barack Obama’s weakness on foreign policy, but a new poll released Wednesday suggests that Americans still have more confidence in the current commander-in-chief on that front.
The latest Bloomberg National Poll shows that likely voters believe Obama would be better-equipped than Romney to handle the often-tumultuous events in the Middle East, 49 percent to 38 percent.
But by a margin of 48 percent to 42 percent, voters believe Romney would be tougher on terrorism than Obama, who has held a consistent advantage on the issue since the 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden.
