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President Obama has engineered a 6-point swing and now narrowly leads presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney in Florida, but picking popular freshman Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to join the ticket could give the GOP an edge in November.

Obama leads Romney 46 percent to 45, according to a poll released Wednesday by Suffolk University, an improvement for the president over a January poll that showed Romney ahead 47 percent to 42.

“Despite locking up the Republican nomination and a strong showing in the Florida Republican primary in January, Romney still has a lot of work to do to win over Florida voters,” said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, in a statement. “He would need to repair the fallout of negativity from the Republican primaries by being more likable and offering general-election voters a positive alternative to President Obama.”

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