Poll: Female voters put Obama in the lead

The Hill reports:

President Obama leads all of the Republican candidates nationally thanks to a wide margin of support among female voters, according to an Economist-YouGov poll released on Thursday.

In a head-to-head matchup, Obama leads GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney 49 percent to 42 percent nationally, according to the poll. Ron Paul is the only other candidate to come within double-digits of the president.