Posted on 11/13/2011 4:58:06 PM PST by RobinMasters
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry's disastrous debate performance last week has hurt his campaign, but may not be fatal, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
After watching a video of the Texas governor stumbling while trying to name three government agencies he would eliminate if elected, 48 percent of registered Republicans thought less favorably of him, the poll found.
But while 31 percent of Republicans said Perry should drop out of the race, many more -- 52 percent -- said he should stay in.
Perry's embarrassing memory lapse further roiled a Republican race already hit by the travails of Herman Cain, who was accused of sexual harassment against four women. Among those polled, 37 percent of Republicans said Cain, who denies the allegations, should leave the race.
The setbacks to Perry and Cain are reshaping the Republican field of potential challengers to President Barack Obama in the 2012 election. Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, once considered an also-ran, has benefited as conservative Republicans cast about for an alternative to the more moderate Mitt Romney.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll had Romney in the lead among Republicans, with 28 percent saying they would vote for him. Perry was fourth with the support of 12 percent, while Cain was second at 20 percent and Gingrich third at 16 percent.
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We need more chatty-mensas in Washington running our country. Look what a great job they’ve done thus far!
Why don’t you “52%” put your necks on the line and show up in polls for Perry then? You’d think this would be a Perrywinkle’s wet dream.
Someone is telling a whopper, http://race42012.com/2011/11/07/poll-watch-national-republican-primary-nbcwsj/
When I first escaped the Democrat mind control plantation, NewsMax was my idea of a solid conservative site. Nowadays, not so much.
This has to be the fourth or fifth suspicious poll I’ve seen them produce over the last several weeks. I’m calling bullsquirt.
I’ll vote on FL primary day, and 11/6/12, no worries.
Heck I don’t want Perry to quit! I want him to spend every last penny he has destroying Romney with attack ads that expose him for the liberal that he is.
Brilliant analysis of Perry!
Of course he should stick around, we need our comic relief.
This smells like a heaping load of crappola. Don’t light any matches.
Perry’s problems aren’t due to one debate.
Yawn and tripple yawn. Another Perrywinkle-generated poll intended to hide smell of his dying campaign. Game’s up guys. We’re on to you.
A couple of weeks ago I got into an argument with a Perry hater who insisted that his 8% poll number meant that 92% of the people hated him and wanted him out.
I tried to explain that not being chosen as the 1st pick of a voter didn’t mean they hated you.
This poll is a great illustration. There are a lot of undecided people out there who want to see this through; and there are some people currently picking candidates but who aren’t really dedicated to their choices.
Often, we’d see that up to 70% of those polled would say they could change their pick. When you factor that into the numbers, the “dedicated” numbers are like 12% or less of the total vote for a candidate.
In other words, if you asked people only if they are absolutely SURE they would vote for a person, the total percentage for ALL the candidates would be like 30%, and no candidate would have more than 12% or so.
Mid-december is when people will start getting serious, and really after Christmas. That’s when all the polls turned around in 2008.
....The online survey was taken among 461 registered Republican voters Thursday and Friday.
Since it was an online poll, typical margins of error do not apply. Despite that, various recognized methods were used to select as representative a sample as possible and weigh the results. If it were a traditional random survey, it would have a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points....
I’d rather see a traditional poll rather than an online poll as a more concrete point of reference.
I’m pretty sure you understand the difference between someone having a “preference”, vs someone wanting choices.
At this point, a majority of the electorate is not committed to the candidate they currently “prefer”. Many people have a list of candidates, and only when they are told to pick to they choose one.
For example, in most online polls I’ve actually chosen a candidate, whoever I happened to be leaning to at that point, but I still haven’t chosen a candidate, and I wouldn’t want to see Gingrich, Cain, or Perry drop out. I want the fight to play out.
Are you really that 'tarded to believe that random people get to choose the polls they'll be surveyed in? Pollsters pick those they want to survey.
I tell you, if this is the level of intelligence in our political discourse, we are not going to survive the next 50 years.
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