President Obama departs Air Force One during a series of fundraising stops. (AP)
Mitt Romney has jumped to a seven-point lead over President Obama in a national poll released today.
The Rasmussen Reports daily presidential tracking poll shows Romney ahead of the president with 50 percent to Obama’s 43 percent.
It is the highest level of support the presumptive Republican nominee has received in his matchup against Obama as well as his largest lead.
The new numbers come a week after a disappointing jobs report that raised doubts about the continued economic recovery from the worst recession in the US since the Great Depression.
Thirty-seven percent of those polled gave the president good or excellent marks on his handling of the economy while 48 percent disapproved of his handling of economic matters, the poll found.
Obama’s overall approval rating is 44 percent compared to 55 percent of those who disapprove of his performance, according to the Rasmussen poll.
It was his lowest approval rating in two months.
The poll’s margin of error is three percentage points.
Meanwhile, Bill Clinton thought so little of Obama — mocking him as an “amateur” — that he pressed his wife last summer to quit her job as secretary of state and challenge him in the primaries, a new book claims.
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