Fresh from a victorious interview on "Meet the Press," Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert continues to out-pun pundits and expectorate political expectations with his half-sincere, three-quarters-book-promoting campaign for the presidency.

According to a new Rasmussen Reports national survey of Colbert's prospects, the comedian culls greater support from likely voters than either Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich when he is pitted against those candidates.

Given a choice between Colbert running as a Democrat and Republican Congressman Ron Paul, 36% of voters prefer Colbert while Paul attracts 32%. Twenty-one percent (21%) say they’d vote for some other candidate while 10% are not sure.

If the choice is between Colbert as a Republican and Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich, it’s Colbert 37%, Kucinich 32%. Nineteen percent (19%) would vote for some other candidate and 11% are not sure.

In each match-up, Colbert's adversary attracts little more than half his partisan base. Paul attracts just 51% of GOP voters. Kucinich attracts 53% of Democrats.

Both Congressmen are outliers in their respective nomination races, given little chance of winning. But 71% of Republicans support Ron Paul in a recent match-up with the Democratic frontrunner, Senator Hillary Clinton. And 62% of Democrats support Kucinich in a match-up with the Republican frontrunner, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

In the match-ups with Colbert, the Congressmen may both suffer from guilt by association—just 16% of Americans say that Congress is doing a good or an excellent job.

An earlier survey found Colbert attracting 13% of the vote as an independent candidate matched against Clinton and Giuliani. Clinton and Giuliani are currently the top choices for their party in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.

In the head-to-head face-off with Paul, Colbert does better with voters aged 18-29 than with any other age group, attracting 51% support. The disproportionate support from the youngest voters mirrors the findings of another recent survey of Colbert's electoral strength. Against Kucinich, however, Colbert does slightly better with voters aged 30-39.

The comedian recently announced on "The Colbert Report" that he would run for president as both a Republican and a Democrat, but only in the state of South Carolina. He later told Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" that he doesn't want to actually be president—just run for president. "There’s a difference," he explained. He also admitted that he once wanted to be a cult leader, but "now I find that being a TV pundit is, is much more powerful, and you have to be less reliable."

By coincidence, Colbert recently published a book I Am America (And So Can You!), mentioned prominently in interviews about his campaign.

Colbert isn't the only comedian who won't win the presidency. There's also his colleague and former boss, Jon Stewart. An April Rasmussen Reports survey found that found that 8% of likely voters would definitely pull the lever for Stewart if given the chance. Colbert trails Stewart by 2% in this category—only 6% will definitely vote for him.

However, Stewart has 38% who will definitely vote against him while just 32% say the same about Colbert. Neither man is close to Katie Couric in this category. The April survey found that 62% would definitely vote against the CBS news anchor.

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