Reuters:

President Barack Obama has a wide lead over potential Republican rivals for the presidential election in 2012, but faces serious doubts about his handling of the U.S. economy, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found on Wednesday . . . In a poll taken days after the May 2 killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, the U.S. president’s approval rating was at 49 percent, a 3-point increase over last month.