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2 Times a Charm -- Rick Perry Takes 2nd Straight Straw Poll
Townhall.com ^ | 3rd October 2011 | Townhall Presidential Straw Poll

Posted on 10/04/2011 5:02:00 PM PDT by shield

Despite mixed reviews from his debate performances, Rick Perry continues to lead the GOP field. Amassing over 30% of the vote Perry took the September Townhall and HotAir Republican Straw Poll.

Ron Paul's support stayed steady, taking 2nd place for the 5th time since we began polling in January. He has won the straw poll three times. Sarah Palin has also won the poll three times, but not since March.

Herman Cain finally stopped his slide, gaining slightly this month. Michele Bachmann lost support for the 2nd straight month. After peaking at 13.6% she has lost over half of her support, coming in at 6% this month. She had the biggest slide this month at 4.4 points. Rick Perry had the biggest gain with 3.3 points. After bottoming out at 1.4% in July, Newt Gingrich has modestly increased his support for two straight months. He still hasn't completely recovered from early campaign mishaps, nor has he seen the level of support he received back in March when he took 11.75% of the vote.

For the most part however, there were no radical shifts in support this month. This could be an indication that supporters are getting more comfortable with their particular candidate. As we get closer to the primaries it will be very interesting to see if support shifts or if one candidate starts to consolidate the vote.

Thaddeus McCotter dropped out of the race and was subsequently removed from the poll.



TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: heartless; mittensucks; perry; perryleads; presidential; strawpoll
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1 posted on 10/04/2011 5:02:06 PM PDT by shield
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; RoosterRedux; jonrick46; deepbluesea; RockinRight; TexMom7; potlatch; ...
Perry Ping....

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2 posted on 10/04/2011 5:04:38 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: shield

On line polls?


3 posted on 10/04/2011 5:04:47 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Recovering_Democrat

At least Mittens isn’t frontrunner in this poll.


4 posted on 10/04/2011 5:07:17 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: shield

Was this tallied at the end of September?


5 posted on 10/04/2011 5:09:38 PM PDT by casinva (The stock in McDonalds has just gone down because Obama has been serving so many whoppers.)
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To: casinva

Tallied October 3rd.


6 posted on 10/04/2011 5:10:58 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: shield
It's nice to see something positive.
7 posted on 10/04/2011 5:16:08 PM PDT by wmfights (If you want change support SenateConservatives.com)
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To: shield

Cool. Good news for Perry.

Did you see it is not officially announced yet, but it is reported that Perry has received at least $10 million dollars in campaign donations in just these last six weeks? I checked for an official announcement on his Perry for President website, and the total is not there yet, but here is US News and World Report leaking a $10 million dollar plus donation tally for the third quarter campaign period:

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/10/04/perry-donors-say-hes-raised-10-million


8 posted on 10/04/2011 5:16:58 PM PDT by casinva (The stock in McDonalds has just gone down because Obama has been serving so many whoppers.)
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To: shield
Rick Perry is gonna end up like the Dallas “Cowgirls” did Sunday, losing out because of this own stupid mistakes.

What will hi Fangirls do then ,,, go back to knitting?

9 posted on 10/04/2011 5:17:28 PM PDT by bwc2221
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To: casinva

You can also not skew the poll. You can only vote in it one time. You find most of these other polls out are skewed and spun to get a result they must have...that Perry is third or fourth...which this poll has proven different or closer to the truth in Perry’s numbers.


10 posted on 10/04/2011 5:18:38 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: shield

I remember when the Hermanator won the Florida straw poll you Perry people were on here telling us how worthless these straw polls are!!

So I went back and checked that thread and guess what HERE YOU ARE:

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Herman Cain wins Florida straw poll in stunning victory; Rick Perry in deep trouble

To: iowamark

First off...straw polls are meaningless...if they were so right then why did Bachmann only received 1.5% when she won the last straw poll?
Now that me straighten out the headline:
Herman Cain wins Florida straw poll in stunning victory; Rick Perry Mitt Romney in deep trouble

375 posted on Sun Sep 25 2011 12:54:32 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) by shield

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2783302/posts?page=375#375

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ROFL!


11 posted on 10/04/2011 5:20:15 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss (Cain you hear us NOW?)
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To: shield

Internet poll, ROFLOL. HEE, HEE


12 posted on 10/04/2011 5:20:20 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrats.)
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To: casinva

I heard the 10 million but also a 15 million figure. He raised it in 6 weeks compared to 3 months the others had.


13 posted on 10/04/2011 5:20:43 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: Meet the New Boss

These people act like we don’t know how email works, take your little email list, copy all, say go here and vote. Damn look at the acorn the blind hog found. How damn silly, run and post meaningless results as news. Now that is grasping at straws.


14 posted on 10/04/2011 5:24:11 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrats.)
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To: Meet the New Boss

When it is numbers you need to have these polls are fine when the numbers go against what you are looking for the numbers are a joke. I agree polls aren’t something to gauge anyone’s perforance by. But boy when polls like this CBS comes out and it lines up with your boy...it is great when this poll comes out it sucks and is nothing at all.


15 posted on 10/04/2011 5:24:58 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: org.whodat

An internet STRAW POLL no less. I thought straw polls meant nothing per Perry supporters.... Hmmm.

Paul in second? Come on get real.


16 posted on 10/04/2011 5:25:36 PM PDT by CSI007
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To: shield
Manufacturing "good news" eh?

Money can't buy you love.

17 posted on 10/04/2011 5:25:45 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (GunWalker: Arming "a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as well funded")
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To: bwc2221

Voters will figure out Rick is the only one standing between Romney and the nomintion. It will take time but it’s going to come after the vetting on TTC. All the way Baby.


18 posted on 10/04/2011 5:26:36 PM PDT by RitaOK (TEXAS. It's EXHIBIT A for Rick, who needs to pound the fiction flackers back into the Stone Age.)
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To: CSI007

Mod needs to move this garbage to chat.


19 posted on 10/04/2011 5:29:06 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrats.)
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To: RitaOK

Agree!!! It’s goin’ to be fun to watch.


20 posted on 10/04/2011 5:30:25 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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