poll finds president obama locked neck in neck with mitt romney tracie pott joins us with details. good morning. reporter: hi lynn, good morning, everyone. let s get to the numbers, they do show how tight this race really is. in terms of who is ahead so far, president obama by four points, 47 to 43, important to point out that is a statistical tie, between the two candidates. also watch the trend because the president s number is down about 2 percentage points since last month. mitt romney is the same as he was in april. now, when it comes to the announcement the president made of same sex marriage, 17% are more likely to vote for the president, 20% say they are more likely to vote for romney, look at this the vast majority, almost two-thirds, 62% say it made no difference at all. on the big issue, the economy, only a third believe that the economy is going to get better in the next year, that is actually down about five points from april down seven points from march. now m
rating on the economy since december. americans are split, though, on whether or not the nation s economic troubles are here to stay. 45% say the u.s. is experiencing a tough time while 48% believe it s the beginning of a longer decline. as far as the general election goes, president obama still holds the edge over mitt romney. the two candidates four points apart among register voters. pretty darn close to the margin of error. a tight race. the president holds big leads with hispanics. 34 points there. women, he s up 15 points on mitt romney. western states up 10 points. 18 to 34-year-olds. the people who came out to vote for him four years ago, he holds a 22-point advantage over mitt romney and an eight-point lead among independents. that s president obama over mitt romney on all those measures. romney polls stronger among men by nine points. among midwest and suburban voters and those with a high interest in the election, although that s within the margin of error. he also
poll finds president obama locked neck in neck with mitt romney tracie pott joins us with details. good morning. reporter: hi lynn, good morning, everyone. let s get to the numbers, they do show how tight this race really is. in terms of who is ahead so far, president obama by four points, 47 to 43, important to point out that is a statistical tie, between the two candidates. also watch the trend because the president s number is down about 2 percentage points since last month. mitt romney is the same as he was in april. now, when it comes to the announcement the president made of same sex marriage, 17% are more likely to vote for the president, 20% say they are more likely to vote for romney, look at this the vast majority, almost two-thirds, 62% say it made no difference at all. on the big issue, the economy, only a third believe that the economy is going to get better in the next year, that is actually down about five points from april down seven points from march. now m
faris. i m john muller. rob is off. we begin with the facebook fallout. investment bank, morgan stanley, is facing increased scrutiny, over its handling of last week s ipo. concern is growing that the big dance gave clients the upper hand, leaving everyone else to fend for themselves. abc s tahman bradley joins us with details. good morning, tahman. reporter: good morning, diana and john. investigators want to know if investors were left in the dark, while big, wealthy investors were warned off. as if the pain from the plunging facebook stock wasn t enough, now questions about the fairness of the company s highly-publicized initial public stock offering. let s do this. reporter: as the company was going public, regulators want to know if big banks gave investors special treatment. we need to look at specifically, with respect to facebook. reporter: one issue, as first reported by reuters, may be that three banks determined before facebook s stock went public, th
senate committee there was no security breach. and that the agents reckless behavior was an isolated incident. susan mcginnis is in washington this morning. good morning to you. reporter: good morning. sullivan is going to tell congress today that these men were not informed about the president s plans and that they were going to be informed after this night of partying. he ll also tell them these men are not representative of the 7,000 workers at the secret service. the head of the secret service agency heads to capitol hill today. mark sullivan will answer to congress about the prostitution scandal involving some of his agents. 200 secret service personnel were in colombia in april, preparin for the president s visit there. of those, 12 were investigated, 9 were found to have been involved, 3 cleared of wrongdoing. the first question i pose to the director was, was there any breach to the president s security in this instance? and the answer was no. reporter: sulliva