"Dwindling support from independents has cost President Obama his onetime edge over a generic Republican opponent, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press that found voters evenly split over his reelection.
The survey showed 41 percent favor Obama winning a second term, while 40 percent prefer a Republican getting elected in 2012. Obama held a 11-point lead in May, after the killing of Osama bin Laden."