Military veterans prefer Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney to President Barack Obama by a wide margin, 59% to 35%, according to a new Rasmussen poll.

Another 5% prefer a third party candidate, while 2% are undecided.

This poll has been echoed by Gallup, which put the two at 58-34 back in May.

John McCain won some 54% of the veteran vote against Obama.

Romney’s larger lead is a sign that veterans are dissatisfied with Obama, rather than particularly pleased with Romney, according to Fox news.

Despite Obama’s attempts to pander to veterans by offering them larger benefits and suggesting that the United States build a country “worthy” of our returning vets, America’s military men and women continue to prefer hawkish foreign policy and fiscal responsibility to appeasement-oriented foreign policy and heavy spending.