Posted on 08/29/2011 2:52:05 PM PDT by tsowellfan
PRINCETON, NJ
Rick Perry's candidacy has attracted strong initial support from Republicans who identify themselves as supporters of the Tea Party movement. Perry leads by 21 percentage points over the closest contenders among this group, Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann. Among Republicans who say they do not support the Tea Party movement, Romney and Perry are essentially tied
These results are based on an Aug. 17-21 Gallup poll, which showed Perry overtaking Romney as the front-runner for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination among all Republicans nationwide.
The poll finds that 58% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents identify themselves as supporters of the Tea Party movement, with 36% saying they do not consider themselves supporters. Included among the group of Tea Party supporters is a smaller group -- representing 12% of Republicans -- who say they are "strong" supporters of the movement. Among this smaller group, Perry's lead is even greater, 46% to 16%, over Bachmann, with all other candidates in single digits...
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The poll finds that 58% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents identify themselves as supporters of the Tea Party movement, with 36% saying they do not consider themselves supporters. Included among the group of Tea Party supporters is a smaller group — representing 12% of Republicans — who say they are “strong” supporters of the movement. Among this smaller group, Perry’s lead is even greater, 46% to 16%, over Bachmann, with all other candidates in single digits.
In Gallup’s July measurement of Republicans’ nomination preferences, before Perry officially entered the race, Romney held a slight edge over Bachmann among Tea Party supporters, 29% to 23%. Romney led Paul by 25% to 16% among nonsupporters.
Well of course, ANY sane person would back the less evil being!
They ask you.
Good for you keeping an open mind here, but Rick Perry NEVER bought into the global warming thing.
Of course it's not a cohesive party...it's a general movement...when I read the headline I knew immediately it was baloney...nothing to see here...move along...
So therefore the whole tea party movement supports Perry...case closed! (heavy sarcasm off now)
All that RonPaul “huffing” is not good for ya.
Anyone can say they consider themselves a Tea Partier, but that doesn’t make it so. Perry troll alert!
Man, I can’t wait for the Perry gas balloon to flutter to the ground in a wrinky heap.
Genuine Tea Partiers are not backing a demrat turncoat who supported Carter and Gore and Gore’s false global warming claims. They are not supporting a man who just signed a hate bill into law in Texas. We all know hate laws are used by the Marxists to silence their opposition.
Why support Perry when there already “clean” conservatives we can choose from?
This is all just more of the Perrybots trying to make it appear Perry is unstoppable. All Perry is to me is the noisy idiot down the hall who thinks he’s God’s gift to mankind.
Yes. Perry looks like a RINO to me. I’d much rather have Herman Cain, Mechele Bachmann, or Sarah Palin.
So why has Perry suddenly burst onto the polical scene like gangbusters? Looks to me like a huge, rich, powerful political machine is behind him.
“inconrehensible” >>> incomprehensible
Have fun boxing that straw man!
The MSM empire would rather have Perry as the GOP contender than one of the more strictly conservative faces? Hoping that he will be a Bushy mush?
1. Bachmann
2. Palin
3. Preferrably some other conservative
4. Preferrably some other conservative
5. Preferrably some other conservative
6. Preferrably some other conservative or possibly as a last choice,
7. Perry
Maybe so, but it's not the MSM empire that is pushing Perry. It's a well financed, well organized political machine.
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