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For the first time, Mitt Romney reaches 40% support among Republicans in the Gallup daily tracking poll.

President Obama has moved up in the latest polls – or is that down? Depends which poll. This week has seen four new public surveys from highly regarded, nonpartisan polling organizations – two one way, two the other. Two other polls show not much change at all.

President Obama's re-election team is using bad polls to try to raise campaign cash. In a fundraising e-mail sent out last night, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina writes: "If the general election were held today, President Obama would lose to Mitt Romney -- according to the latest poll from Washington Post-ABC News."

A new poll Monday showed Mitt Romney is surprisingly strong in two Republican presidential primary contests in the South this week that are crucial to his conservative rivals Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.

As the GOP presidential race shifts to the South, Newt Gingrich has a slight edge over Mitt Romney in a new Mississippi poll.

Mitt Romney picks up another conservative endorsement and a new poll shows him pulling ahead in Ohio, as the biggest day of the GOP presidential campaign nears.

As Super Tuesday looms, the contest in the Buckeye State appears extremely competitive.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has erased a 10-point deficit against rival Rick Santorum among registered Republicans in the race for the GOP nomination, according to a new Gallup poll released Monday on the eve of the Michigan and Arizona primaries.

Two new polls in the showdown state of Michigan suggest that Rick Santorum failed to gain a badly needed shot of momentum in Wednesday night's Republican presidential debate.

A surging Rick Santorum is running even with Mitt Romney atop the Republican presidential field, but neither candidate is faring well against President Barack Obama eight months before Americans vote, a new survey shows....