Obama 44%, Paul 35%
President Obama continues to lead Texas Congressman Ron Paul in a hypothetical Election 2012 matchup.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters finds Obama earning 44% support to Paul’s 35%. Thirteen percent (13%) prefer some other candidate, and eight percent (8%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
These findings show little change from a month ago when Obama held a 10-point advantage over Paul, 44% to 34%. The two men were essentially tied in surveys conducted in August and July.
Among Republican voters nationwide, Paul is well behind the two front-runners, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Georgia businessman Herman Cain, earning just five percent (5%) of the vote. In New Hampshire and Iowa, however, Paul is in third with double-digit support.
The president has trailed a generic Republican candidate in weekly surveys for over three months now. Rasmussen Reports releases new numbers from this survey every Tuesday at 3 p.m. Eastern.
(Want a free daily e-mail update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook.
The national survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on October 28-29, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Related Articles
Rasmussen Reports is a media company specializing in the collection, publication and distribution of public opinion information.
We conduct public opinion polls on a variety of topics to inform our audience on events in the news and other topics of interest. To ensure editorial control and independence, we pay for the polls ourselves and generate revenue through the sale of subscriptions, sponsorships, and advertising. Nightly polling on politics, business and lifestyle topics provides the content to update the Rasmussen Reports web site many times each day. If it's in the news, it's in our polls. Additionally, the data drives a daily update newsletter and various media outlets across the country.
Some information, including the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll and commentaries are available for free to the general public. Subscriptions are available for $4.95 a month or 34.95 a year that provide subscribers with exclusive access to more than 20 stories per week on upcoming elections, consumer confidence, and issues that affect us all. For those who are really into the numbers, Platinum Members can review demographic crosstabs and a full history of our data.
To learn more about our methodology, click here.
