RASMUSSEN: Obama Falls Behind Paul - Paul 43% Obama 41% (on Drudge)

[Tyler_Durden]

RASMUSSEN POLL: Obama Approval at 45%, Lowest in Month—President Falls Behind Romney and Paul...

Romney 45% Obama 43%...
Paul 43% Obama 41%
Obama 45% Santorum 43%
Obama 49% Gingrich 39%... Developing...

It's on DRUDGE

Source: http://m.rasmussenreports.com/public..._tracking_poll

For the first time ever, Texas Congressman Ron Paul also leads the president. In that matchup, 43% prefer Paul and 41% Obama.

Paul has the biggest gender gap of any GOP hopeful. The libertarian congressman leads by 13 among men and trails by eight among women. Paul also picks up 15% of the vote from self-identified liberals.

Paul now joins Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Santorum and Gingrich as front-runners who have led the president in a single Rasmussen Reports poll. However, it remains to be seen whether Paul can do what those others have not accomplished and lead the president more than once. So far, the only GOP candidate to do that is Romney.

[bluesc]

Rasmussen usually has Paul about 10% behind Obama. Something big must have happened.

And Paul keeps Obama the lowest by stealing independents .

[sailingaway]

Rasmussen usually has Paul about 10% behind Obama. Something big must have happened.

And Paul keeps Obama the lowest by stealing independents .

Rasmussen has had Ron one point away from Obama and a couple points away from Obama. He 'usually' rated Ron all by himself when Obama had high favorables. In every poll grouping I've seen where candidates were rated against Obama at the same time, Ron ALWAYS either does best or second to Romney.

[nobody's_hero]

Rasmussen usually has Paul about 10% behind Obama. Something big must have happened.

And Paul keeps Obama the lowest by stealing independents .

I think the Arizona debate happened. That was Ron Paul's best performance since the speech he gave after the NH primary.

Relatively well-articulated, confident almost to the point of cockiness, and aggressive enough to call out others for their records.

[Student Of Paulism]

Sad that nothing will probably come of it and the lovely MSM never report on it either :-/

[dancjm]

This is good

[Dublin4Paul]

This is so awesome but IT NEEDS TO GET OUT. Despite this poll, you're still going to have the professional propagandists in all sectors of the MSM not even bring this up, or only show the results for Romney, Santorum, and Gingrich while skipping Paul, etc. Therefore, and I know I'm definitely not the only one saying this, Ron has to pimp these numbers like no one's business on the national stage several times.

[IterTemporis]

A Rasmussen poll??

[cucucachu0000]

As soon as articles start popping up about this we need to drill this into people's head over and over again im totally gonna shove this into my hes unelectable santorum loving father in law's face lol

[The_Ruffneck]

GRINCH is damaged goods , i wonder what Santorum polled a week ago??

[jkob]

unelectable my ass

[splanky]

unelectable my ass

Amen.

[Bruno]

"A vote for Santorum or Gingrich is a vote for Obama."

[sailingaway]

On the plus side it concedes Ron is a 'frontrunner' on the negative, it ignores polls OTHERS have done showing Ron running ahead of Obama and ones RAsmussen itself has done showing Ron within the margin of error and implies this is a one off.

[tennman]

"A vote for Santorum or Gingrich is a vote for Obama."

Oh freak yeah! I'm going to start saying that!

[r3volutionpaul91]

unelectable eh? how's that working for ya MSM?

[digitaldean]

That is some good news. Please tweet/facebook those numbers. Does anyone know of an actual webpage instead of a homepage that changes?

[RDM]

Anyone have a link to this poll?

[jsem]

AWWWW YEEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[devil21]

Must have a link to the results!

[goldpants]

Plaster Washington, North Dakota, Idaho, Vermont, Virginia with this poll folks. This could be huge in proving RP's electability.

[digitaldean]

I am not sure where they got their numbers but I found this link:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/publ..._tracking_poll

"In a potential Election 2012 matchup, the president leads Mitt Romney 45% to 43%." So why does Drudge have it the other way around? And I don't see Paul on it.

[Dsylexic]

I am not sure where they got their numbers but I found this link:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/publ..._tracking_poll

"In a potential Election 2012 matchup, the president leads Mitt Romney 45% to 43%." So why does Drudge have it the other way around? And I don't see Paul on it.

this is embarrassing.

[Tyler_Durden]

I am not sure where they got their numbers but I found this link:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/publ..._tracking_poll

"In a potential Election 2012 matchup, the president leads Mitt Romney 45% to 43%." So why does Drudge have it the other way around? And I don't see Paul on it.

In the very next paragraph:

For the first time ever, Texas Congressman Ron Paul also leads the president. In that matchup, 43% prefer Paul and 41% Obama.

Paul has the biggest gender gap of any GOP hopeful. The libertarian congressman leads by 13 among men and trails by eight among women. Paul also picks up 15% of the vote from self-identified liberals.

Paul now joins Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Santorum and Gingrich as front-runners who have led the president in a single Rasmussen Reports poll. However, it remains to be seen whether Paul can do what those others have not accomplished and lead the president more than once. So far, the only GOP candidate to do that is Romney.

Updated the opening thread. Thanks for the link.

[digitaldean]

In the very next paragraph:



Updated the opening thread. Thanks for the link.

Ok thanks. I was looking at the 26th for some reason. I went back and now its on today's date.

[CaptUSA]

The best part of this is that Paul has the lowest negatives!

[Feelgood]

Hmmm nothing about Romney? I see a link there of Brewer endorsing Romney as well. Biatch.

[Tyler_Durden]

Hmmm nothing about Romney? I see a link there of Brewer endorsing Romney as well. Biatch.

She was receiving tons of criticism on her Facebook wall, so she pulled a Gingrich/Santorum by locking it. Lol

[NoPants]

Hmmm nothing about Romney? I see a link there of Brewer endorsing Romney as well. Biatch.

Maybe the link was changed?

Mitt Romney leads the president in a hypothetical 2012 matchup. Romney earns 45% of the vote, while the president attracts support from 43%.

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For the first time ever, Texas Congressman Ron Paul also leads the president. In that matchup, 43% prefer Paul and 41% Obama.

[hunter100]

Its too bad this poll didn't happen a couple days ago. It doesn't leave a lot of time to promote the news before MI and AZ.