Connecticut voters are sharply divided over President Obama's performance, according to this morning's Quinnipiac University poll.
Forty-eight percent of those surveyed approve of the job the Democratic president is doing while an equal number disapprove. It is Obama's lowest job-approval rating in the state since becoming president.
"President Barack Obama getting only a 48 - 48 percent approval rating in blue Connecticut shows just how far the president has fallen,'' said poll Director Douglas Schwartz in a statement accompanying the numbers.
Obama's all-time high job-approval rating came in the April, 2009 Q poll, when it topped 70 percent.
By a slim margin -- 49 to 46 percent -- Connecticut voters believe the president should be reelected.
Obama would beat any of the possible Republican presidential contenders in Connecticut. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the overwhelming favorite of Connecticut Republicans, according to the poll, would lose to Obama by 13 percentage points, the poll found. The rest of the GOP primary field would fare far worse.
National frontrunner, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, does not fare well among Connecticut Republicans. He gets 19 percent of the vote, compared with Romney's 37 percent, the poll found. The rest of the GOP pack hovers in the single digits among Republican voters. Michelle Bachmann would get 8 percent of the GOP primary vote in the state.