Texas Congressman and GOP candidate Ron Paul placed fourth in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Paul earned 11 percent of the votes, which is a 2 percent rise compared to a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll conducted in August.
The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, which was conducted between October 6 and 10, featured a total of 336 GOP primary voters. The margin of error for this poll is plus or minus 5.35 percentage points.
Pizza magnate Herman Cain, who MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough called “the flavor of the week” on Thursday, continues his rise in the polls. Cain took first place with 27 percent of the votes, followed by former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney with 23 percent of the votes.
Texas Governor Rick Perry slipped out of first place and into third with 16 percent of the votes. In August, Perry was in first place with 38 percent of the votes. Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum earned less than 10 percent of the votes.
Paul recently won a Values Voter Summit straw poll last weekend and came in third in the latest Iowa caucus poll.
Despite leading the pack among likely GOP primary voters, Cain wouldn’t match up well against President Barack Obama in a hypothetical general election. Obama would earn 49 percent of the votes and Cain would grab 38 percent of the votes.
A Harris poll, released at the end of September, revealed that Paul and Romney would beat Obama in a hypothetical general election. According to the Harris poll, if Paul won the Republican nomination he would win the general election with 51 percent of the votes to Obama’s 49 percent.
