Daily Political Wire

George Wenschhof

Romney and Santorum Tied in Michigan - in a Mitchell Research poll released one day before the primary tomorrow, Rick Santorum received 37% and Mitt Romney 35%, a statistical tie. You can read more here.

Republican strategists believe a Romney loss, in his home state, would be devastating to his campaign and led to further and intense effort to encourage another candidate to enter the race, as they believe Santorum can not win a nationwide battle against Obama.

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Santorum Assails Education and the Separation of Church and State - adding to the fears Republican strategists have if Santorum became the Republican Party nominee. The Washington Post has more here.

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12 Swing States likely To Determine Election - a poll released by USA Today/Politico illustrates why they call them swing states. The electorate is split with President Obama in a statistical tie with both Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.

Take note: Voters in the swing states weighed in on the new federal health care law with 53% thinking it was a bad thing and 38% thinking it was a good thing.

You can read more here.

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GOP Campaigning Helping Obama Approval Ratings - in a poll released by politico/George Washington University, President Obama has had his approval rating increase to 53%, up 9 points over the last four months.

Nationwide, among most likely voters, Obama leads Romney 53%-43%, Obama 53%-Santorum 42%, Obama 50%-Generic Republican 45%

Take Note: the Generic Republican fares better against Obama than either Romney or Santorum.

You can read more here.

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Who is Funding Those T.V. Political Ads? - as part of an overall effort toward reign in runaway campaign fund raising, online disclosure is being pushed. Currently, TV broadcasters are only required to keep a paper trail at their corporate headquarters. Efforts to require online disclosure join efforts to improve disclosure of super PACs and SEC rules to require corporation to disclose to shareholders their political contributions. RollCall.com has more here.

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