Posted on 09/06/2011 3:58:50 PM PDT by CA Conservative
Aided by strong tea party support, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has surged in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, pushing former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney into second place and significantly diminishing the once-rising star of Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.), according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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14% isn’t a bad number for Palin, taking into account she’s not even in the race. If she actually gets in she could probably pull a point or two more from each of the candidates currently in. Knocking Romney into 3rd wouldn’t bother me one bit.
Guys see this? "mylife" here is a example and what happens when parents are doing heavy drugs, before he was born.
This is just one more poll to add to the list. Now every major poll shows Perry ahead of Romney. The last ABC/WaPo poll showed Romney up at 26 points with Palina actually in 2nd, and Bachmann in 3rd. Perry was actually in 5th place with 8 points. Now Sarah has lost 4 points and is in 3rd after Perry and Romney
Here is one for you with Palin in it:
Most of the gains have come from former Sarah Palin supporters, like me.
And people insist she hasn’t lost momentum.
I noticed that Mitt stepped into Perry’s slot at the DeMint forum yesterday.
Goebbels würde das Zwingen einer unerwünschten und nicht benötigten Droge in die Adern der kleinen Mädchen genehmigt haben.
Guardasil again eh?
Look at this first before you make that claim:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/09/06/perry_expands_lead_over_gop_field_in_new_polls.
I keep seeing Palin supporters making this feeble claim. The reason most candidates get a bump when they enter the race is because they are not well-known, so they pick up a lot of people who are taking a look at them for the first time. Palin has almost 100% name recognition, and she has been campaigning almost non-stop for three years, if you include her TV shows, Tea Party events, bus tours, Fox News gig, etc. Almost everyone knows her and almost everyone has an opinion - for almost 2/3 of them, that opinion is negative. So she is not going to suddenly get a bump in the polls because she jumps in. To do that, she is going to have to start changing people's minds about her.
Well, since Perry jumped into the race, Palin has gone from a comfortable 2nd to a distant 3rd place in this poll. She appears to be going in the wrong direction...
Yes, ml. It matters to conservatives and we don’t plan to let it rest.
No, he got Sarah’s slot. She didn’t show but was invited.
Dude you made a mistake! That was meant for your daddy!
You are right but she is not running so the point is moot. She is playing with everybody until she can turn the circus into another pay day.
I was referring specifically to the ABC/WaPo poll, not all of the polls combined. When you combine all of the polls, the picture is a lot better for Perry.
[”To do that, she is going to have to start changing people’s minds about her.”]
That may be the case, but since she decided to take so long to decide, (oxymoron) she no longer has the luxury of time on her side to do that. Her high name recognition and low image ratings will take much more time to reverse than she has.
She also didn’t accept the invitation.
Too afraid or is Alaska on fire?
I think some of her loss of support is from people getting tired of her waiting game.
She lost me simply because I think Perry can beat Obama, and Palin can’t right now. I think she’ll get some of her people back(but probably not all of them) if she enters the race.
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