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Why shouldn't Perry continue on? He should do better in SC than Iowa and why should we be calling this nomination process over after the first caucus?

We're just getting started, this is not the end.

With Perry's ability to raise funds, he may be able to starve out either Newt or Santorum. Who knows?

Why shouldn’t Perry continue on? He should do better in SC than Iowa and why should we be calling this nomination process over after the first caucus?

We’re just getting started, this is not the end.

With Perry’s ability to raise funds, he may be able to starve out either Newt or Santorum. Who knows?

With Perry’s ability to raise funds, and, in my fairly experienced eyes at least, one of the better teams making political ads in the business, he has a good chance of totally demolishing Romney’s credibility.

I am betting there were phone calls last night - between Gingrich, Santorum and Perry.

Very pleased he decided to stay in and not quit.

Why shouldn't Perry continue on? He should do better in SC than Iowa and why should we be calling this nomination process over after the first caucus?

Except that the polls say he's not doing better in SC. He might get a slight bump from Bachmann leaving, and I have a feeling that Bachmann leaving helped him to decided whether or not to say in the race today, but even if he got all of Bachmann's folks, that still only puts him ahead of Ron Paul. It doesn't address the definite surge Santorum will get, and Perry won't get all of Bachmann's backers. In fact, Bachmann's supporters could easily push Santorum past Perry and into 4th or 3rd place.

And let we forget, there were FReepers and others saying that Perry was doing a lot better in Iowa than the 8% - 12% polling that we were hearing, and that he had an amazing ground game and was spending millions on advertising.

He finished with 10%. That is not doing better than the polling indicated. In fact, it's worse than some of the polls indicated, but it's uncanny how Perry was within a percentage point of the last two weeks of polling.