Polls of the Week: April 20

Voter ID laws, views on single parenting, plus more.

Americans Weigh In - Congress loses a popularity contest, the number of interracial marriages in the United States reaches all-time high, President Obama gets kudos for fiscal cliff dealings, plus more national polls. – Joyce Jones and Britt Middleton

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Opinions from Around the Country - Voter ID laws draw overwhelming support from Republicans, women chase the American Dream harder than men, support of U.S. leadership slips in Africa, plus more. —Joyce Jones and Britt Middleton

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Michelle, Ma Belle - President Obama isn’t the only member of his family who’s more popular than a Romney. A CNN/ORC poll released April 17 gave First Lady Michelle Obama a 71 percent favorability rating, compared to 41 percent who view Ann Romney similarly. In addition, 20 percent of respondents said they’d never heard of the former first lady of Massachusetts. (Photos from left: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images, JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

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Support for Voter ID - Participants in a Fox News poll overwhelmingly believe voter fraud is a problem. In a poll published April 18, 70 percent of participants said voter ID laws are needed to prevent illegal voting.   (Photo: REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

Support of U.S. Leadership Slips in Africa - For the first time in the Obama administration, support of U.S. leadership has declined among Africans, a Gallup poll reported on April 19. In 2011, support across African dropped to 74 percent from the mid-80s, where it’s been for the past two years. However, the image of U.S. leadership continued to be the strongest worldwide in Africa in 2011.  (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP Pool via Getty Images)

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Support of U.S. Leadership Slips in Africa - For the first time in the Obama administration, support of U.S. leadership has declined among Africans, a Gallup poll reported on April 19. In 2011, support across African dropped to 74 percent from the mid-80s, where it’s been for the past two years. However, the image of U.S. leadership continued to be the strongest worldwide in Africa in 2011. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP Pool via Getty Images)

Polar Vortex Brings in “Pollen Vortex” This Allergy Season - Health experts are predicting that the extreme winter we experienced this year is going to make allergy season one of the worst ever. Why? Because the winter pushed back pollen season and now all of the plants are dumping pollen right now instead of in phases, Mother Jones writes. Are you ready for the Pollen Vortex?(Photo: Fuse/Getty Images)

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Allergies Attack! - Itchy, watery eyes and other allergy symptoms are worse for Americans this April than in years past. In a Gallup poll released April 18, 22.8 percent of people reported being sick with allergies this month compared to 20.8 percent in April 2011 and 21.8 percent in April 2010. In March, 19.6 percent of respondents said they suffered from allergy symptoms, suggesting allergy season arrived earlier than usual.  (Photo: GettyImages)

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Hardworking Women  - Young women now surpass young men in their belief that finding success in a high-paying career is a life goal, according to a Pew survey released on April 19. Sixty-six percent of women ages 18 to 34 said a lucrative career was a top priority, compared to 59 percent of men of the same age range. In 1997, 56 percent of young women felt the same, compared to 58 percent of men. (Photo: GettyImages)  

Raising Kids Alone Doesn’t Dampen Women’s Happiness - Despite the stigma behind single motherhood, a study finds that single moms do find happiness in life. Researchers from Sweden found that even when women faced money issues, societal disapproval and lack of partner support, single mothers were happy in their lives and made their children the “center of their worlds,” writes Health Day. (Photo: Susan Barr/Getty Images)

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Modern Family - The number of babies born in the United States to an unwed mother has increased eight-fold between the years of 1960 and 2008, the Pew Research Center reported recently. In a Pew survey released on April 19, 52 percent of Americans age 18 to 30 viewed the findings negatively compared to 62 percent of Gen Xers (ages 31 to 46), 67 percent of Boomers (ages 47-65) and 76 percent of the Silent generation (over 65). (Photo: GettyImages)

Obama and Mitt Romney - In a move that has helped Mitt Romney all but cinch the GOP nomination, Rick Santorum exited the campaign trail this week. But that’s not what people are talking about. The big news is a debate between the Obama and Romney camps about the so-called war on women. —Joyce Jones(Photos from left: Marc Serota/Getty Images, Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Six of One; Half a Dozen of Another - President Obama and Mitt Romney are statistically tied — for now. According to the findings of a CNN poll of polls published April 18, 47 percent of registered voters support Obama while 45 percent back his presumptive rival Mitt Romney. The survey averaged the results of polls from CBS News/New York Times (conducted April 13-17), Gallup's daily tracking poll (conducted April 12-16), CNN/ORC International (April 13-15) and Reuters/Ipsos (April 12-15). (Photos from left: Marc Serota/Getty Images, Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Romney Campaign - “We’ll get back to you on that,” said a Romney aide after a six-second pause when asked during a conference call with reporters whether the candidate supports the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which makes it easier for women to challenge unequal pay. President Barack Obama signed the act into law in 2009. (Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

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Better Late Than Never - A Public Policy Polling survey released April 17 showed that Republicans are finally falling in line behind Mitt Romney who now has 54 percent of support compared to 24 percent for Newt Gingrich and 14 percent for Ron Paul. In addition, among Tea Party voters, Evangelicals and “very conservative” voters, he leads Gingrich, respectively, by 47-35 percent, 50-35 percent and 48-33 percent. (Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)