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President Obama is expanding his lead among independent voters in swing states, providing the president a crucial buffer as he fights to retain control of the White House this fall.

Obama is the choice of 48 percent of independent voters, versus 39 percent who favor presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney. That represents the president's best lead yet; he was trailing Romney for all of 2011 among independents and just edged ahead of the former Massachusetts governor for the first time in February. 

The poll, conducted at the end of March by USA Today and Gallup, surveyed voters in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

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