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In all seriousness, the answer is “probably” yes and here’s why: Perry comes in with a lot of hype as the “Last Great Hope” for Republicans, someone who’s allegedly is conservative enough than a Mitt Romney but broader enough to be accepted from the Party as a whole. Now mind you this is before he has debated anyone or done a one on one interview with the national press. The polls reflect such an expectation this week with him surging ahead of Mitt and Bachmann, whom the expected Primary voters are not completely sold on this early. In essence, Perry has to maintain and meet his expectations put on him. The race though is a marathon not a sprint and most of those seriously paying attention to the Primaries this early is us political junkies and the media not most primary state voters or the general public. We notice that Bachmann has started to come down to earth from the hype of the Ames straw poll and appears to be struggling for the long haul since she isn’t use to state wide or national campaign outside of her district. Perry may suffer as well just from the expected hype. Sarah Palin on the other hand has enthused core supporter but is dismissed by the media, pundits and some voters as not going very far if she enters the race, thus she has low expectations put on her and is considered an underdog but Palin’s history of success always starts as underestimated and the only one other than Romney (somewhat of Ron Paul) that has been through many months of national campaigning, the primaries or general elections. She can only go up because of her low expectations and can be the wedge to win as it’s expecting for Mitt and Perry to battle it out against each other.