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Obama tops Romney in new poll of small business owners


Nearly half of small business owners (47 percent) plan to vote for a second term for the president, compared to 39 percent who plan to vote for Mitt Romney, according to a new poll conducted by the George Washington University School of Political Management and Thumbtack.com. Even more importantly, perhaps, the president is perceived as more supportive of small companies by the most coveted group of voters — independents.

Researchers polled more than 6,000 small business owners, and the group of respondents closely mirrored the overall population in terms of gender, business size and business age. Responses were collected in the weeks following the president’s now infamous “you didn’t build that” comment but before it was used as a central theme of the Republican National Convention.

This latest poll stands in stark contrast to a similar one released a month ago by Manta, which showed Romney holding a comfortable lead over Obama among voters on Main Street.

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