Wow! Ron Paul Ties Barack Obama in New Poll

This really doesn’t surprise me. President Obama is unpopular, and anyone that isn’t a progressive democrat would be an improvement.

Rasmussen: A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of likely voters finds Obama with 42% support and Paul with 41% of the vote. Eleven percent (11%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided.

Even more interesting is the following:

American Spectator: Meanwhile, Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm, finds that the public is now pretty evenly divided between Obama and the man whose unpopularity made his rise possible. The president leads his predecessor Bush by a narrow 48 percent to 46 percent. In this case, it’s more about voters returning to the typical ideological lines — with Republicans and conservative independents who became disenchanted with Bush during his second term supporting him over Obama.

He, other members of his party and the media demonized Bush for years. Obama, on the other hand, has had unusually favorable coverage by the media, despite his treatment of them. Yet he still virtually ties both Ron Paul and the hated George W Bush in the polls.

The irony is that Bush was demonized for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, bailouts and spending. Iraq’s in much better shape thanks to Bush’s surge policy, but we’re still in Afghanistan with no end in sight and Obama’s ramped up bailouts and spending beyond our wildest nightmares. Imagine what the polls would look like if the media treated him the way they treated Bush.

Via memeorandum