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. That’s 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 wasn’t 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, Perry’s receives the support of 29 percent of GOP primary voters, followed by Romney at 22 percent, and Bachmann and Paul both at 8 percent. Romney’s support has dropped 4 percentage points and Bachmann’s 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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I hear this all the time where ever I go. (And I go to a lot of different places.)
Forget what you hear on this forum. It is miles away from the real voter sentiment.
They didn’t ask me! Perry may just be the anti-Mitt flavor of the month.
Rick Perry is a talented polician with a mixed record. Let’s wait and see how he does in the debates and on the National scene.
it is not that hard if you see how much and how much of that courage reaps in green dollar bills....
Exactly.
I also hope, nah, I don’t think ..but I sure hope Perry wouldn’t do a Scott Brown on us.
It’s just a small fear I have in the back of my mind.
Anything is better what we have now .. .and if we at least elected a far more conservative senate, we’d at least be able to right the ship a turn.
One common theme that I see on this website is overuse of the term “Rino”. Just because a candidate does not square with our each and every policy decision does not make them a Rino. It is counter-productive. Heck, even Reagan did things (Amnesty in ‘87) that could be considered “Rinoish”.
To me, I want to see the most Conservative person get elected. I have my preferences for a candidate, and yes Sarah is closest to my own stated beliefs with her policy positions, and I do like her alot. BUT, I also think that a majority of the voting public would wrongly consider her to be an “experiment”. And right now, with the state of the economy and general conditions in this country, most voters are going to be risk averse. Right or wrong, it may be the worst time for Sarah to run.
Perry has an edge when it comes to the risk averse voter. He does have a substantial record to run on. Now, I don’t agree with all of his alleged policy stances, but are Palin, Paul, or Romney supporters really going to allege that he would be worse than Obama? Actually, would any Republican be that bad? No they may not be ideal,and I am not a Romney supporter, but I would hold my nose and vote for him.
I don’t see Romney winning because many people see him as similar to Obama. GOP voters and many Independents will not go for him.
Paul does not and never will have widespread support. While most of his economic policies are pretty sound, he is crazier than a rat in a tin sh-t house when it comes to foreign policy. Flame away, but that is how I see him. This is not 1820, we can’t bury our heads in the sand and hope against hope that the bad people will be nice and leave us alone.
I really believe, for better or worse, Perry will be the nominee. I love Sarah, but as my very conservative Mother says, “Now is not the time for more uncertainty”. And in many people’s eyes, right or wrong, Sarah is not a proven commodity. The fact that she can draw big crowds may actually work against her, as many Conservative and Independent voters will sourly remember the last time we allowed a “cult of personality” to choose the leader of the free world.
Just my humble opinion. If Sarah were to win the nomination, I would actively and enthusiastically support her. I am not counting on it.
Mittens is still getting his azz whipped in every poll that comes out. I cannot imagine Sarah’s support going to Perry and that eventuality making Mitt even happier.
But I’d like to see it.
Oh it doesn’t bet. At least that’s what it told me, lol.
Oh yes.....tons I’m sure.
“Why, oh why weren’t the primaries closed?”
Because a John McCain or Mitt Romney is exactly the candidate that the elite in the GOP want.
Sarah Barracuda says it well :)!
Great! Gotta love inflexible “ideological purity!” Yet those people will be the first to whine when the Marxist wins re-election because those with all of those “pure” thoughts stayed home or voted for a candidate that cannot win. We will spend another four years on this forum reading about how revolution and collapse are just “around the corner”.
I remember what happened with Bush and Amnesty. He caved when Conservatives brought pressure to bear. So would Perry and just about any other GOP President. Add a Conservative House and Senate to the mix and I don’t see it as much of a worry. Do you think that would matter under Obama? Let’s continue to be inflexible and find out!
The primaries are one thing, and the general election is another. Vote for your candidate all day in the primary. But, if you refuse to back the GOP nominee, no mater who it is, against Obama, then that is a bigger problem than Perry’s, or whomever the candidate may be, alleged policy shortfalls are. We KNOW Obama is poison for this country. Perry, or even Romney, given a conservative Congress and Senate, may actually be able to be forced to do some good. At least some of the conservative agenda would have a chance to be enacted. With Obama, none of it would, PERIOD.
I am not in favor of Amnesty in any form. But if given the choice between the Commie or Perry, I would surely vote for Perry. Are you saying you would not? Or that you would stay home? That, quite frankly, is a huge problem. Let’s flush the country because we want to take our ball and go home if we don’t get the candidate we want!
Korean Chamber of Commerce in the USA
http://www.kocham.org/bd.html
According to the 2010 Census and 2009 American Community Survey, there were approximately 1.3 million people of Korean Americans residing in the United States.[4] The ten states with the largest estimated Korean American populations were California (452,000), New York (141,000), New Jersey (94,000), Washington (62,400), Virginia (62,000), Illinois (60,000), Texas (59,000), Georgia (52,000), Maryland (45,000), and Pennsylvania (40,500). Hawaii was the state with the highest concentration of Korean Americans, at 1.8%, or 23,200 people.
Korean Americans have achieved a high demographic profile in some U.S. cities, including New York City.The two metropolitan areas with the highest Korean American populations as per the 2009 American Community Survey were the Greater Los Angeles Combined Statistical Area (300,047) and the Greater New York Combined Statistical Area (201,393),[5] home to the largest and second largest populations of ethnic Koreans outside of Korea, respectively. The Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area ranks third, with approximately 93,000 Korean Americans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_American
Why on earth would they want to keep others out of the race? I think we need as many choices as possible, putting their ideas out their for Republicans to discuss.
It is fox news, and they are reporting a poll.
Presumably not everyone considers him to be a RINO.
“Presumably not everyone considers him to be a RINO.”
Let me guess:Border Criminals!
Grunthor,
Ok, she didn’t announce, but if you listened to her speech, she proposed her solutions and plan for turning things around.
She’s running, and she’s doing it her way.
That’s what I’m saying. There’s no way she’s going to pick a RINO for her VP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Pg_1i53_Y
In case you haven’t seen it.
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