US President Barack Obama tops his main Republican rival in everything from personality to diplomacy - but when it comes to the economy, a new poll shows a potential weak spot in his bid to hold onto the White House. A Washington Post-ABC poll on Tuesday found if the election were held now, the Democratic president would win in a match-up against Mitt Romney by 51 percent to 44 percent.
But the poll, conducted April 5 through April 8, shows Romney with a double-digit advantage among Americans when it comes to reducing the federal budget deficit, and with a narrow edge on managing the economy. The finding show the president, who took office amid the largest economic slowdown since the Great Depression, is still vulnerable when it comes to matters of American's pocketbooks and wallets despite his overall advantages.
In fact, just 26 percent of those surveyed said the former Massachusetts governor "seems friendly and likable" compared to 64 percent for Obama, and just 29 percent found Romney more inspiring than Obama, who polled at 55 percent. When it comes to creating jobs, the candidates are locked in a statistical tie, with 46 percent supporting Obama and 43 percent backing Romney - a gap within the poll's margin-of-error of 3.5 percentage points. Romney had a clear advantage on one issue - managing federal deficits, with 51 percent of the more than 1,100 polled saying he would do a better job on that compared with 38 percent for Obama.
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