Washington - US President Barack Obama is way ahead of his rival Republican candidate Mitt Romney among California voters, a new poll has revealed.
According to the results of Field Poll, Obama leads Romney by 55 percent to 37 percent among likely California voters and also has a comfortable lead among white non-Hispanic voters 50-43
percent and males 51-38 percent, the two demographic groups where he is struggling in other states.
Obama also has a 66-22 lead over Romney among Hispanics, Politico reports.
The poll results showed that the only religious group that favours Romney by a wide margin are Protestants, while Catholics and other religions are for Obama 78 percent and 56 percent respectively. Romney scored a 33 percent rating amongst Catholics and 19 percent in other religions.
While Obama's favorability ratings were found to be 58-39 percent, Romney by contrast, was seen underwater in his favorability rating with 36-55 percent.
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