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15 September 2012| last updated at 11:54AM

Obama holds three-point lead over Romney in new poll



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NEW YORK: US President Barack Obama is leading his Republican rival Mitt Romney by three points, even though many Americans remain dissatisfied with the situation in the country, a new opinion poll shows.

 

The survey joint survey by CBS News and the New York Times showed that 49  percent of likely voters will support Obama in the November 6 elections, while  46 percent gave their preference to Romney. 
 
Just four percent of those polled said they remained undecided.
 
But when asked whether the country was doing better or worse than four  years ago, 36 percent said the United States was doing better but 39 percent  said things were worse.
 
According to the survey, Romney is preferred to Obama among likely voters  aged 65 and over, but the incumbent president leads among younger voters.
 
Obama’s lead among women voters is in double digits, according to the poll,  53-41 percent. 
 
But Romney holds a lead among men by 52 percent to 44 percent.
 
This poll was conducted by telephone from September 8-12 among 1,301 adults  nationwide. It had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage  points. -- AFP
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