The Week in Polls: Dec. 15
Obama leads his top two GOP rivals in nationwide polls.
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Republican Field - A majority of Republican voters consider the GOP presidential field to be just average. According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll published Dec. 13, 51 percent said the candidates are average compared to past choices and only 21 percent characterized the field as strong.(Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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Newt Gingrich - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich still has a commanding lead over his GOP presidential rivals, but it is starting to shrink slightly, according to a Gallup poll published Dec. 14. The national survey found that 31 percent of Republican registered voters support Gingrich, down from 37 percent. Mitt Romney garnered 22 percent and the other candidates are polling in the single digits.(Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Obama and Swing State Voters - A Gallup survey published Dec. 13 found that Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have a slight edge over President Obama in 12 key swing states. In a match-up between Obama and Romney and Obama and Gingrich, 48 percent say they would support the Republican candidate. Nationally, the president is tied with Romney and leads Gingrich by six percentage points. (Photo: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
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Obama and Social Media users - President Obama is tops in Twitterverse. According to the results of an NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey of tweeters published Dec. 14, his approval rating is 69 percent, 23 percentage pints higher than his national approval rating. He is less popular among Facebook users, who gave him a job-approval rating of 47 percent.(Photo: Stephen Lam/Getty Images)
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Big Government - Sixty-four percent of Americans say that big government is the nation’s biggest threat, according to a Gallup poll published Dec. 12. Broken down ideologically, 82 percent of Republicans and 64 percent of independents view big government as the biggest threat, compared to 48 percent of Democrats.(Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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