Total garbage. If Perry drops out most of his support will go to Cain, and some to Newt. Nobody I know who supports Perry would even think of voting Romney in the primary, and I doubt if there are any Perry supporters here at FR that would either.
Agreed. Perry was always an anti-romney vote, although initially he was an attractive alternative.
"Post Implosion" Perry's vote will indeed go to Cain except for the spoilers who cannot deal with the self-inflicted loss to Cain.
And make no mistake, Perry is over. You don't recover from labeling most of your potential support base as "heartless" when your most basic policies reflect exactly what you stated. The comment caused a great many people to further scrutinize what he actually believed in and he was done after that. He did it all on his own to himself.