By Kyle Adams - October 17, 2011

As former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain continues to surge in the Republican presidential field, a new poll released Monday shows him narrowly leading President Obama in a hypothetical head-to-head general election matchup.

The Rasmussen Reports poll shows Cain leading Obama by two points, 43 percent to 41 percent. Obama led Cain by three points in a Rasmussen poll released earlier this month. He also held double-digit leads over Cain in a Time poll and an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released last week.

Though questions have been raised about Cain's staying power in the race due to his limited campaign finances and infrastructure, he continues to take advantage of Texas Gov. Rick Perry's recent decline, sitting at or near the top of the Republican field in several national polls released within the last month. A CNN poll released Monday shows Cain one point behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Perry comes in third.

The Rasmussen Poll was conducted from Oct. 14-15 among 1,000 likely voters. It has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.