Ron Paul gaining traction...

Perry’s Star Begins To Fade With Voters

Ron Paul still most competitive in new polls

Steve Watson

Rick Perry’s status as front runner in the race for the GOP nomination is beginning to falter it seems, if the latest national poll released by Rasmussen is anything to go by.

Just two weeks ago, Perry held a three point lead over Obama in a hypothetical match up, since his performance in the debates, he has slipped and trails Obama 46% to 39%.

Perry trails Obama by 15 percentage points among women and barely leads among men.

Even mainstream media pundits agreed Perry’s performances, particularly his exchanges with Ron Paul, in the debates were distinctly average.

In addition, much coverage over the past fortnight has focused on Perry’s Democratic past and his flip flopping over the Gardasil mandate he oversaw in Texas.

Meanwhile in a new Reuters/Ipsos survey, Ron Paul emerges as one of the most competitive Republican candidates with registered voters when pitted directly against Obama.

Paul attracts 42% of voters to 49% for Obama, while other candidates such as Perry, Bachmann and Huntsman all fail to draw the president below 50%.

“Our campaign has been gaining momentum for some time now, and this is yet another poll that clearly proves how competitive we are versus the President” said Ron Paul 2012 Campaign Chairman Jesse Benton.

“Dr. Paul is gaining ground in poll after poll, affirming that people are looking for real change instead of the status quo they are being offered from the establishment.”

The findings dovetail with other recent surveys that have placed Paul within striking distance of Obama.

Three weeks ago Rasmussen reported that Ron Paul earned 38% of the vote to President Obama’s 39% in a national phone poll of 1000 likely voters.

Another significant finding from the poll indicated that voters not affiliated with either of the major political parties preferred the congressman to Obama by 10 points – 43% to 33%.

The survey also found that voters under 30 prefer the president, while Paul edges the incumbent in all other age groups.

A Gallup poll released in the same week found that Ron Paul trailed President Obama by just 2 percentage points at 47 to 45%.

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