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The Obama campaign is not happy with a new poll that suggests Mitt Romney has closed the gender gap.
The poll published last night by CBS/New York Times shows Obama trailing former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney 46%-43%, within the margin of sampling of error of +/-4 points. The pollsters surveyed 615 adults nationwide over the weekend, including 562 registered voters, who were first interviewed for a CBS News/New York Times poll conducted April 13-17.
The Obama campaign quibbled with the call-back method.
"We can't put the methodology of that poll aside," deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter told MSNBC this morning. "It is a biased sample."
Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt took to Twitter to raise doubt about the poll's suggestion that Romney has closed the gender gap. The CBS/New York Times polls show Romney leading the president 46%-44% among women and 45%-42%.
"State polls show big advantage among women," LaBolt tweeted. "Be wary of any poll that doesn't."
He could have a point. A new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows the gender gap continuing. In the nationwide poll, women prefer Obama by 8 percentage points. Men prefer Romney by 3 points.
The USA TODAY/Gallup survey of 1,012 adults was taken Thursday through Sunday. It has an error margin of +/-4 points.