Posted on 09/01/2011 8:09:11 PM PDT by Sarabaracuda
Even as Texas Gov. Rick Perry moves into the lead as Republican voters preferred presidential candidate, a Fox News poll released Thursday shows that voters are more likely to view him as too extreme than former frontrunner Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney. In addition, most American voters -- including a majority of Republicans -- think former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin should stay out of the presidential race.
Perry receives the support of 26 percent of GOP primary voters in the new poll. Thats up from 13 percent in early August and enough to edge out Romney as frontrunner. Currently Romney captures 18 percent, down from 21 percent (August 7-9).
No other candidate garners double-digit support.
Palin receives 8 percent and Texas Rep. Ron Paul comes in at 7 percent. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann captures the backing of 4 percent, down from a high of 11 percent in late June. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and businessman Herman Cain also garner 4 percent each. Another 4 percent support former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, even though he has said he is not running and his name wasnt included in the question. Giuliani and Palin are unannounced.
Click here to see the full results of the poll.
When voters are asked to pick just among the announced candidates, Perrys receives the support of 29 percent of GOP primary voters, followed by Romney at 22 percent, and Bachmann and Paul both at 8 percent. Romneys support has dropped 4 percentage points and Bachmanns has dropped 5 points since the August 7-9 Fox News Poll, which was conducted before Perry officially announced his candidacy on August 13.
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So what that it's six months before the primaries.
So what that a poll 6 months before a primary can't be proven to be correct.
They will lead and we all should follow.
“The RINOs are doing that its HIS turn thing again, arent they?”
They’d like to. Until those primaries get closed we will never get a truly conservative GOP nominee.
Oh please. The media (or establishment) only picks our candidate half the time. They picked McCain in’08 but Bush wasn’t their choice in ‘00. They chose Dole and the first Bush but Reagan was not their pick. And Bush 41 mostly had the nomination by riding Reagan’s popular coattails. Romney is their choice this time but it far from settled he’ll win it.
As for Palin I really don’t care if she enters or not. I have my chosen candidate already. My only wish is that she’d put an end to speculation because I’m damn tired of all this spectacle.
To those who say don’t run....why? No, really, why?
What does she got to lose by runnnig...NOTHING!!! According to the liberal meme, the’ll always be the speakers circuit, “cheerleading” and “kingmaking”. She can do it all and if she loses then you won’t have to worry about it. She’ll go back to Alaska and be done-n-gone.
So, you see, these “don’t run memes” are just propaganda to convince her NOT to run....beause they’ll know their guy/gal could loser to her.
Ohhhhh, you might be concerned that she wins the nomination then lose the general?? But that takes additional thought. If that’s the case, how does she win the nomination? What does that say about her, the GOP electorate, her oppenents, her strategy and ground game?
Winning the nomination just dosen’t happen out of nowhere, it takes a good message, strategy, money and a ground game.
Perry/Christie?
They have a lot in common: Both support illegal immigrants both are pro-Islamic and neither is as conservative as their supporters make them out to be.
She’s not. Sarah will endorse Rick. Unfortunately, the drive-by media has accomplished their mission to deflate Sarah’s support and are now attempting to do the same thing to Rick. Mittens is loving every minute of it.
My magic 8-ball tells me she isnt going to run.
Is your magic 8-ball willing to make a bet or is it all spin-n-read????
http://conservatives4palin.com/2011/06/six-clues-palin-is-running-for-president.html
The more I hear about how Sarah Palin should “stay out”...the more I become convinced that America needs her...and that the RinoCracy fears her.
The RinoCracy has abused their trust...treated their employers, We the People with remarkable contempt.
20% U-6 unemployed We the People have the time, and certainly the inclination to start issuing pink slips.
I’m not in agreement with your critisism of all polling but yeah....FOX has issues. Really all the media polls do. I stick to the non media driven ones...well with exception of Zogby who completely discredited himself years ago.
Did you look at the poll? It shows 66% of self-identified Tea Party supporters wanting her to stay out of the race.
Actually, there are all kind of Korean-American votes to be had by speaking in South Korea.
” My crystal ball says Palin is the nominee and Perry is on the VP list, but doesnt make the cut. “ <<<
My crystal ball says SP may have been waiting all this time on her documentary to be released to the public. That happened tonight. I watched it. If it should move her poll numbers off the ground to some point of viability, then she and we will all know soon. If the numbers should move enough, she may risk a run. The next 10-14 days I believe she will be watching closely those numbers and will get in or out. If she does not get in I believe her “calling” will be to crawl through glass to boost Obama’s ouster, whoever it is, and just like the rest of us at our smaller stations. This is war. No one will be on the bench.
That’s my greatest fear. Hordes of demonrats flood our primaries and vote for Mittens. Why, oh why weren’t the primaries closed?
Perry already said publicly that he would have a pro-life VP, so that leaves out Christie and Guiliani.
“Hey everyone, you can see The Undefeated starting today, on Dish Network and other providers. Saw it tonight. It was awesome”
Totally agree. Even if she doesn’t run, she’s the voice of the conservative movement.
When are you going to change your handle? I made the mistake once of mixing up your name with the legit Sarah Baracuda here.
Gov Palin is going to wipe the floor with Perry!
Maybe your name could be changed to Perrycuda or something along those lines? Actually having cuda on the end would still not be right.
Perrybot or something along those lines would be more appropriate.
I suppose at some point you supported Sarah, but it is clear you no longer do, so it just seems improper to go by that handle, JMHO
When Sarah enters the race, you are supporting Perry right? I rest my case, just is not proper!
Yes I hear you, it is not my site, you are right, just offering my opinion
Mine says that she's either going to run or she's not going to run, one of the two.
Yeah..you’re right...I’m sure both will appoint pro-islamic judges and work to veto any pro-conservative legislation a congress might offer.
that would suck.
There ain’t no way that a 3 term governor is going to play second fiddle to a 1/2 term gov/reality tv star.
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