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A spate of new tracking polls from Rasmussen show encouraging signs for President Obama's reelection chances, with the president hitting 50 percent approval among likely voters and leading both Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney in hypothetical head-to-head match-ups.

But Romney is once again outperforming Santorum when faced up against the president, providing the former Massachusetts governor a boost in an increasingly important electability argument he must make against the former Pennsylvania senator, according to a poll released Monday by Rasmussen.

Obama leads Romney 48 percent to 42 percent in a hypothetical match-up, for a net lead of six percentage points. But faced up against Santorum, Obama leads 49 percent to 41 percent, giving him an eight-point edge.

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