Tuesday, 7 February 2012A new poll indicates U.S. President Barack Obama would beat Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney in a hypothetical election matchup.
The ABC News-Washington Post survey shows President Obama ahead 51 percent to 45 percent among registered voters, and 52 percent to 43 percent among all Americans.
The poll, conducted last week among a random sample of 1,000 adults, shows half of those surveyed approve of the president's job performance and believe he deserves a second term.
In a televised interview Sunday, President Obama said he deserves to be re-elected, citing new figures that indicate the economy is adding jobs. He told NBC the economy is doing much better than when he took office three years ago, but that, "we are not done."
The president noted a report that said the unemployment rate fell in January for the fifth month in a row, with nearly 250,000 jobs added. In 2009, he said, the economy was losing three times that many jobs per month.
But the Republican presidential hopefuls say the economy is not recovering fast enough and Obama's policies have been ineffective.
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Tuesday, 7 February 2012
VOA News
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