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Rasmussen: Perry 29%, Romney 18%, Bachmann 13% (Perry leads Romney by double digits)
Rasmussen Reports ^
| August 16, 2011
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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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012polls; bachmann; cyaromney; palin; palinnotinrace; perry; perry2012; rickperry; romneydone
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To: Fred
After reading your post....I wonder
“who da heck are all these people pushing Perry?”
I already knew he had a lot of baggage...but I did not realize how much he still had left at the airport
Barick OPerry sounds more like him. Sounds like Obama’s pick to replace Biden...not the GOP presidential candidate
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posted on
08/16/2011 10:43:32 PM PDT
by
Haligonian
(Welfare is a riot...go ask Londoners)
To: DRey; grey_whiskers; Norm Lenhart; Sacajaweau
"DRey says: Nice smear. Too bad its inaccurate."
If the truth is a smear, then don't blame anyone except the person whom that smear originates from and in this case, it is Perry. Too bad, you're such a pushover.
grey_whiskers says:"With a post like that you've cheesed off nearly *everyone*."
If the truth is a cheesy to you, grey_whiskers, then you're doing the right thing by supporting another liar in chief like Perry. How's that Obama vote going for ya? I'll bet you're pleased as punch, huh!?.
Sacajaweau says:"There's a BIG PICTURE to tis Presidency thing."
Why yes I agree, Sacajaweau, there is. I notice you failed to mention what that is for you, though. C'mon, share with us, won't you? What is you "big picture?" And Perry's big picture is big one world government, big debt, big deficits, big lies and big brother.
Here's just a small sample of the truth that Perry owns:
RICK PERRY WOULD GUARANTEE AN OBAMA RE-ELECTION!
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We Are ACORN Mighty, Mighty ACORN: Rick Perry Edition
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Perry 01 - Foxs vision for an open border is a vision I embrace
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Rick Perry Running for U.S. President of Chinese Cyber Espionage
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Tom Tancredo: Rick Perry not a true conservative
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Dictator Texas Governor Rick Perry Exposed - Six graders forced by STATE to get STD Vaccine
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The phony Christian is as wicked as can be. Hes a liar and a wolf in sheeps clothing. Rick Perrys mandate and Merck Pharmaceuticals. Follow the MONEY from the lobbyist to Rick Perry.Mandatory vaccines and guaranteed flow of MONEY.
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Gardasil WARNING! - CNN Report 8.11.8
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Girl Dies within Hours of Cervarix /Gardasil Vaccine Perry FORCED IN TEXAS
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14 Year Old Girl Dies After HPV Cancer Vaccine! Dictator Perry FORCED the vaccine on 6th graders.
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Gardasil - The Damage is Done: From A Best Friend's View - Perry only cared about MONEY and not the constitution of people lives.
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Gardasil killed my daughter - Perry sleep with big pharma!
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Perry essentially calls the legislators who rescinded his executive order to force girls to receive vaccines, murderers.
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Rick Perry Gets D-minus on Immigration (middle of a bad GOP pack)
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Perry promises America and God he will serve out his 4 years in 2010. Notice too in 2009 95% of the jobs created in Texas were created in the PUBLIC SECTOR. 4 OF 6 MEDINA VS PERRY VS HUTCHISON TEXAS GUBERNATORIAL DEBATE JANUARY 29, 2010
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Perry increases size of government increases debt and increases taxes.
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Perry: "President Foxs vision for an open border is a vision I embrace, as long as we demonstrate the will to address the obstacles to it.
An open border means poverty has given way to opportunity, and Mexicos citizens do not feel compelled to cross the border to find that opportunity."
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In 2000, when Perry first became governor, total spending by the state of Texas was $49 billion. At the end of 2010, it was $90 billion.
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Perry has more than doubled the Debt of Texas from 49 to 90 BILLION:
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Gov. Rick Perry says he has a track record of not raising taxes - LIE!
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MSNBC_ TEXAS Governor Rick Perrys Economic Bubble Busted In The Rachel Maddow Show Unemployment rate going up, 25% have no health care, highest number of minimum wage workers IN THE NATION!
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Barbara Bush earlier this year on Texas education under Perry:
We rank 36th in the nation in high school graduation rates.
An estimated 3.8 million Texans do not have a high school diploma.
We rank 49th in verbal SAT scores, 47th in literacy and 46th in average math SAT scores.
We rank 33rd in the nation on teacher salaries.
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NAFTA Superhighway plans advance - south Texas governor and Mexico agree to extend Trans-Texas Corridor
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Perry is the brainchild of the Business Margins Tax - a disaster for small business Dont mess with the Texas mess Executive Director of NFIB/Texas details harmful impact of margins tax
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Perry says he cut property taxes by one-third - UNTRUE! Perry says he cut property taxes by one-third - UNTRUE!
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Perry says he cut the business tax? Half-true
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Besides Perrys economic policy, immigration policy, education policy, transportation policy, energy policy, trade policy and increase taxes policy, one can say hes not a socialist...but they would be hard pressed to prove it!
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As a border state governor, Mr. Perry signed state immigration law in 2001 known as the Texas DREAM Act.
Here is an excerpt from a speech Governor Perry gave during the border summit in August of 2001:
We must say to every Texas child learning in a Texas classroom, "we dont care where you come from, but where you are going, and we are going to do everything we can to help you get there."
And that vision must include the children of undocumented workers. Thats why Texas took the national lead in allowing such deserving young minds to attend a Texas college at a resident rate. Those young minds are a part of a new generation of leaders, the doors of higher education must be open to them. The message is simple: educacion es el futuro, y si se puede."
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- Toll Roads and Trans Texas Corridor
- Is it socialism, fascism or communism?
Keeps trying to ram Trans Texas Corridor (TTC) down Texans throats.
Massive land grab.
Toll roads are gargantuan TAX INCREASES, debt time bombs and an attack on property rights.
Rick Perry has instituted a huge tax increase in Texas in the form of toll roads; going from zero debt on roads to $30 billion in toll road debt in 10 years as Perry sells off Texas' public infrastructure.
They will financially blow up later, just like real estate market did, because of the high leverage. (2003-2011).
For more info: email Terri Hall at terri@texasturf.org
Also, www.texasturf.org, the anti-toll road group.
Contact Linda Curtis of IndyTexans at ljcurtis@indytexans.org; she can tell you how Perry is controlled by monopolistic corporations definitely NOT interested in free market enterprise and competition.
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Here is her case for impeaching Perry as governor:
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- HPV vaccine mandate - attack on parental rights.
Tried to force every 12 year old girl in Texas to take Gardisil shots because his former Chief of Staff Mike Toomey is a lobbyist for Merck.
Perry literally tried to mandate this by executive decree as if he were a Hillary Clinton dictator until the Texas legislature crushed it overwhelmingly. (2007)
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FLDS El Dorado raid (2008) Another massive attack on parental rights and peaceful home schoolers; Religious Oppression.
438 children ripped away from parents and traumatized for months.
Out of control Child Protective Services goons raid, approved by Rick Perry, and based on a CRANK phone call from Colorado alleging child abuse; breaks up dozens of families.
Of ALL the outrageous things Perry has done, this may be the WORST as he criminally traumatized and endangered dozens of peaceful families.(2008)
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- Played politics with the death penalty case of Cameron Todd Willingham
Perry refused to give him a stay. Willingham had been convicted of murdering his family via an arson determination that was based on junk science.
Even worse, Perry later removed 3 members of board of the Texas Forensic Science Commission that was investigating the case and put political pressure on the head of the panel.(2009)
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Supports No Child Left Behind Act and Dept. of Education (Hey, is the federal government running your local school in the Constitution? Fine with Rick Perry.)
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Instituted state CHIP program for Texas!, a widely abused program and one more step to socialized medicine, more taxes and rationed healthcare. (Hey, is CHIP in the 10th Amendment?)
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Supports Sobriety Check Points! Unconstitutional trashing of YOUR 4th Amendment rights where everyone is pulled over with no probable cause and no reasonable suspicion. (Perry supported SB 298 bill) 2009
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Supports the Patriot Act By now folks you should have figured out the Patriot Act is the criminal government nuking your 4th Amendment rights. Fine with Rick.
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Vetoes Texas Eminent Domain Bill taking your land for his toll road schemes more important than signing property rights protection overwhelmingly passed by Legislature. (2007)
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Signs Hate Crimes bill Attack on free speech and creates thought crimes, includes sexual orientation as a class! (2001)
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Governor for NINE years, then reads about the 10th Amendment a few years ago. Trying to piggy back on Ron Paul and the Tea Party movement. Completely insincere because for 9 years Perry never said an ill word about federal encroachments, No Child Left Behind, etc. (2009)
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Endorses liberal cross dresser and gun grabber Rudy Guiliani for President (2008)
Tells Mike Huckabee I love you like a brother, but you cant win so I am going with gun grabber Rudy Julie Annie, hes a sure thing!
The Bilderbergers said I can be VP if I grovel enough and am for toll roads, globalism, open borders, big government, big pharma and, of course, the Federal Reserve.
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Globalist bootlicker Bilderberger toady (2007).
For United Nations, NAFTA, CAFTA, Trans Texas Corridor.
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Does not stand up for elected State Board of Education every time it gets castrated by the liberals in the legislature Throws crumbs to conservatives on SBOE, but when they really need him, hides under desk, sticks fingers in ears.
Did not veto SBOE redistricting map which was designed to castrate conservatives. (2011)
Contact textbooks legend Donna Garner on this: donnaggarner@gmail.com
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Supports $5 bar tax on every patron of a strip club Wife Anita pushes this.
Wife Anita on salary for $65,000/year at the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault and bar tax is their #1 legislative agenda item.
TAASA receives state money already and wants to get grubby hands on bar tax expected to generate millions.
Titty bar tax ruled unconstitutional by lower courts. (2010)
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Supported whopping $3 Billion Cancer BONDS, the Lance Armstrong cancer tax more taxing, borrowing and spending. (2007).
Perry is for Texas borrowing money to go into the cancer research business.
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Shortly after he became governor in 2000, Perry signed a hate crimes bill that included gays among the protected groups.
He appointed a moderate, Grace Shore, to chair the State Board of Education.
He called for expansions of the states Medicaid and Childrens Health Insurance programs (which are now bankrupting our state).
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Wants to use Texas Teacher and State Employee Retirement Money on risky TOLL ROADS!
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Vicente Fox thanks Perry for in-state tuition for illegals
and other information regarding the immigration situation.
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Rick Perry would veto Arizona immigration law
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Rick Perry says "BORDER FENCE IS NONSENSE:"
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Rick Perry: Ive never been in favor of a border wall
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Rick Perrys super secret, state-funded Israel trip
No transparency - "big government payoffs" for big business - big energy!
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Expose' on Rick Perrys taxpayer-funded mansion
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By Perrys own admission:
95% of Jobs created in Texas in 2009 were public sector...statement located at 4:10 on this video:
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posted on
08/17/2011 5:20:57 AM PDT
by
jacknhoo
(Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
To: jacknhoo
Perry has more than doubled the Debt of Texas from 49 to 90 BILLION:
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posted on
08/17/2011 5:31:24 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
To: Calif Conservative
Hi CC,
Thanks, glad you like the posts!
I can tell I’m not popular in some quarters around here ;)
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posted on
08/17/2011 5:49:00 AM PDT
by
Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
("A gentleman considers what is just; a small man considers what is expedient.")
To: Sola Veritas
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posted on
08/17/2011 6:32:21 AM PDT
by
Friendofgeorge
(SARAH PALIN OR FLIPPIN BUST)
To: Sola Veritas
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posted on
08/17/2011 6:33:53 AM PDT
by
Friendofgeorge
(SARAH PALIN OR FLIPPIN BUST)
To: Brices Crossroads
You are absolutely 150% correct, thank you!
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posted on
08/17/2011 6:35:59 AM PDT
by
Friendofgeorge
(SARAH PALIN OR FLIPPIN BUST)
To: SUSSA
Seriously ?
Rove & Co. as well as Fox , are desperately shopping some more establishment controlled candidates to stop Perry . Rove is out there peddling Ryan , Christie and even Palin in an attempt to damper Perry .
Perry is getting attacked by the Left and by the Repub establishment . That’s a very good sign for Perry .
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posted on
08/17/2011 7:03:32 AM PDT
by
Neu Pragmatist
(Rick Perry is the only one who can defeat Romney and Obama)
To: Steel Wolf; Sacajaweau
"He's still an American citizen by birth, not naturalization. I understand what you're saying, but bottom line is the Supreme Court won't challenge their own precedent" Why should we support further erosion of our constitution? One time is one too many. Our founders had a very good reason to specify "natural born citizen":
"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President"
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posted on
08/17/2011 9:26:46 AM PDT
by
uncommonsense
(Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
To: Neu Pragmatist
Rove is all over the board. Last night he was all warm fuzzies for Perry. I think Rove is losing his grip on reality.
He hits people one day and slobbers over them the next. I think that most of us, whether for Perry or for someone else, can agree that Rove is a RINO POS.
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posted on
08/17/2011 9:30:24 AM PDT
by
SUSSA
To: DRey
"Dont let either of those bother you. Neither one of them happened. Gardasil vaccine to prevent cervical cancer thrown in with all the other state-mandated vaccines for school kids? No. The people freaked out (me included) and it never happened. Even if it had, it wasnt REQUIRED. Same with the corridor. It didnt happen. He isnt perfect, but by God he listens to the People. Did you hear what he did in Texas, throwing out the liberals that write our textbooks?" Thats excellent info I did a brief five year stint in Baton Rouge, LA (just in time to go through Katrina and Rita), then moved back to Texas. I lost track of Texas politics because I was ridiculously busy during that time - working to save a company and make the founders rich (you know - evil capitalists who risked their family money to employ 200 people and make some of them pretty comfortable).
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posted on
08/17/2011 9:57:11 AM PDT
by
uncommonsense
(Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
To: jacknhoo
Wow, Jackstick, that was a mouthful of rot. So much so I didn’t bother reading it. Enough with the lies and misrepresentations. Talking longer and louder still doesn’t make it “right.”
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posted on
08/17/2011 11:11:24 AM PDT
by
DRey
To: ilgipper
It’s way too early. This thing is likely to go the distance. Although Perry is the flavor of the month he certainly has a lot of Democrat history on his resume. Any of the GOP candidates could beat Obama.
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posted on
08/17/2011 11:25:26 AM PDT
by
campg
To: ilgipper
It’s way too early. This thing is likely to go the distance. Although Perry is the flavor of the month he certainly has a lot of Democrat history on his resume. Any of the GOP candidates could beat Obama.
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posted on
08/17/2011 11:25:53 AM PDT
by
campg
To: Ingtar
Thank you!!! 100 percent correct.
To: Friendofgeorge
“OK so you are saying that Bachmann did NOT hire Ed Rollins etc?”
No, I never even implied that. That, the hiring of Rollins, is undisputable and verifiable fact. It is the hearsay stories about Bachmann supporters doing bad stuff that may be false witness. Hearsay is not fact and is not even admissible evidence in a court of law....and for good reason...it is just gossip.
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posted on
08/17/2011 6:44:27 PM PDT
by
Sola Veritas
(Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
To: SUSSA
I agree with you on Rove . Rove is doing all he can to insert a handpicked establishmentarian into the race .
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posted on
08/17/2011 7:45:22 PM PDT
by
Neu Pragmatist
(Rick Perry is the only one who can defeat Romney and Obama)
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