Yesterday, the Barna Group released the results of a survey it conducted comparing President Obama to Mitt Romney and Rick Perry on four key “character or competency qualities that voters often evaluate when selecting their preferred candidate.”

The four characteristics examined were perceived honesty, intelligence, philosophy of government, and leadership ability and Barna added together each candidate’s “excellent” or “good” ranking and determined that on three of the four characteristics, President Obama came out on top (Romney came out on top in the category of leadership ability.)

Barna is well-known for its excellent research and polling on the evangelical community and reports that, in contrast to voters on the whole, evangelicals placed Rick Perry at the top of every category and that his scores were generally higher than the scores of Obama and Romney combined: