Posted on 08/16/2011 10:30:29 AM PDT by AAABEST
Texas Governor Rick Perry, the new face in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has jumped to a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann with the other announced candidates trailing even further behind.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary voters, taken Monday night, finds Perry with 29% support. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, earns 18% of the vote, while Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman who won the high-profile Ames Straw Poll in Iowa on Saturday, picks up 13%.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who was a close second to Bachmann on Saturday, has the support of nine percent (9%) of Likely Primary Voters, followed by Georgia businessman Herman Cain at six percent (6%) and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with five percent (5%). Rick Santorum, former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, and ex-Utah Governor Jon Huntsman each get one percent (1%) support, while Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter comes in statistically at zero.
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As predicted. If Perry can survive the onslaught of the next few weeks and perform well in the next large debate, this thing is going to be over sooner than later.
Good news. Let’s get the RINOs out of the race early and narrow the field to conservatives only.
Romney and Bachmann are going to fade fast, if Palin doesn’t jump in this race the nod is probably Perry’s.
Obviously Rasmussen and Rick Perry have Palin Derangement Syndrome.
Oh, and it’s also obvious that Rick Perry is just a stalking horse for Myth Romney.
FYI ping
In a two man race it would be Perry 2 to 1 over Romney. I’m not surprised.
I'll start....Rubio...but the question of citizenship comes up. So, I'm still thinking.
Horse of a different color?
Speaking of color, and no PC garbage:
The GOP sure as heck better not nominate Romney with his Mormon background and vulnerability to charges of racism.
No way, with his generations-long ties to mormonism, can he escape the issue in a general election campaign against the M.N.
Has Mittens ever hit 29%? He must be furious.
West.
I thought that had already been settled, or no?
If he holds this lead, I’m guessing all of the second tier candidates will drop out (Cain, Huntsman, Santorum). Only the big three will be left with Ron Paul hanging on forever picking up his steady 4 - 5 percent...
This poll is obviously false. How many times have we read here on FR that anyone who waits until this late to announce is toast? /sarc
Get the RINOs out of the race early and you only have Cain and Bachmann remaining.
Rubio was born in Miami. You really think the Supreme Court would swear in Barack Obama but not Marco Rubio?
Precedent, whether one agrees with it or not, has already been set. Rubio's got no worries, and it would be beyond comedy for the DNC to complain.
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