Most people barely know who Perry is now. They haven’t really seen or heard him for themselves. It’s a long time and a lot of campaigning before anyone casts a vote.
I am quite familiar with him as I live not too far from Texas and do quite a bit of business and shopping there. He’s far from perfect like anyone else but he has governed his state well. In fact his accepting all those Katrina peeps has helped Louisiana to finally have more registered R’s instead of D’s for the first time since Reconstruction. His leadership has been beneficial in more ways than one. :-)
Palin is known and not all of it is positive. It’s called Palin fatigue.