Posted on 08/16/2011 10:30:29 AM PDT by AAABEST
Texas Governor Rick Perry, the new face in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has jumped to a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann with the other announced candidates trailing even further behind.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary voters, taken Monday night, finds Perry with 29% support. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, earns 18% of the vote, while Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman who won the high-profile Ames Straw Poll in Iowa on Saturday, picks up 13%.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who was a close second to Bachmann on Saturday, has the support of nine percent (9%) of Likely Primary Voters, followed by Georgia businessman Herman Cain at six percent (6%) and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with five percent (5%). Rick Santorum, former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, and ex-Utah Governor Jon Huntsman each get one percent (1%) support, while Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter comes in statistically at zero.
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Then why not a Perry-Palin ticket instead of Perry-Bachman. I can’t quite put my finger on why, but I like Palin a lot better than Bachmann.
[The enthusiasm for both Perry and Bachmann is significantly higher than that of Romney. Enthusiasm is a great motivator in getting people to ACTUALLY vote and NOT just answer a telepoll. I think Romney has “good” recognition, but he won’t generate the excitement necessary to get folks to vote for him.]
Wait until all of Perry’s RINO’ness is exposed (i.e open borders guy, deficit spending, etc.)
ROFLMAO!
Just keeps getting more and more hilarious; somehow, I think when Palin isn’t included in a poll including ANNOUNCED candidates, it’s not Rassmussen’s fault for not including her, it’s her fault for not announcing.
Keep on laughing , but there is a flaw in your flue. The last two Rasmussen Polls included Perry but not Palin , even though like Palin, Perry hadn’t announced either. So yes, this poll is garbage as was mentioned earlier.It was and is a deliberate attempt to exclude her.
Why the arguments? I think that winning is defeating Obama.
And open borders....We would have been devastated if we couldn't get to Quebec for our annual fishing trip.
So glad I was forced to take the polio vaccine. My friend wasn't so lucky. She got Polio 5 years before the vaccine.
There's a BIG PICTURE to tis Presidency thing.
GOP Rinos are trying to sink him.
The Obamunists in media and his regime have already started trashing him
He points out the insanity of a possible QE III to save Obama.
He seems to have followed Reagan's 11th Commandment, and not spoken harshly of other CONSERVATIVES (sorry Mitsey)
Probably others I have missed. But I think Perry is a good conservative, and a great campaigner.
Best one, sadly, I have heard about McCain. He has fooled conservatives for the last time. But that is because he won't run again.
He did leave us his charming daughter as a gift for our loyalty. Oh she, the poster child for Blonde jokes.
Yeah. And a question on activist/constitutional judges. And a question on states rights. And a question on exit strategy for the three wars, with another question on the War Powers Act. And a question on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And a question on America being exceptional.
There are many special circumstances for cuban americans because they were american citizens up until we had the stupid idea to not allow them to be a protectorate.
JMO but this guy was born in the US and he’s cuban so he’s fine. unlike the guy who can’t provide his birth certificate.
“As predicted. If Perry can survive the onslaught of the next few weeks and perform well in the next large debate, this thing is going to be over sooner than later.”
Seems likely, Perry can and likely will clean Obama’s clock come election time.
I think the democrats know that, and they will throw everything they have at Perry. Perhaps given Perry’s sentiment and 2009 speech, they will attempt to take a lincliontian tact.
But that will likely fail given what Perry actually said, is reflective not only of the sentiment of the people of Texas, but of the rest of these united States now more then ever.
Obama is a man who can’t accept the unworkability of liberalsim/socialism, even as its collapse and unworkability becomes unavoidably obvious in the world around him.
It is this failing that has driven Obama to lie, and campaign in effect against his own policy’s while continuing them SAME policies!
You nailed Santorum’s problem perfectly.
Right now Santorum about 40% of PA republican primary voters want him to run against son of Casey again.
More than anyone else, by far.
Do you think he’ll get in?
Rasmussen Poll: Trump Takes Lead with GOP Voters
Thursday, 28 Apr 2011 01:15 PM
By Jim Meyers
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Rasmussenpoll-DonaldTrump-GOP-PrimaryVoters/2011/04/28/id/394449
The thing that is different about Perry is that he is comfortable in his own skin. Bachmann is. Pawlenty wasn’t, Romney isn’t.
“Way too big a jump for Perry in the polls for NO apparent reason.”
I don’t think so. I think people were waiting for him to get in.
Headline:
Rasmussen Poll (August, 1979) shows former TX Governor John Connally leading George H.W. Bush 29 to 18. Phil Crane trails with 13.
Non candidate Ronald Reagan not polled. Reason: He is not running and it is too late for him to enter.
(Post script: Reagan entered THREE MONTHS later, on November 13, 1979, won the nomination in a rout, carried 44 states, defeating the first elected incumbent President since Herbert Hoover 50 years earlier.)
And Connally? Spent $11 million to get ONE delegate. Dropped out after Yankee Reagan clobbered him 55-30 in the South Carolina primary (although John Connally was a better candidate than Rick Perry).
“Way too big a jump for Perry in the polls for NO apparent reason.”
The reason is pretty obvious. Leave Palin out of the poll. Add non serious candidates like Herman Cain and Ron Paul. With this level of slight of hand, Scott Rasmussen achieves the result his bosses told him to achieve.
Utter garbage.
I’m not sold on him either, but the comfort factor is immediately what I noticed about him and it’s essential.
And, don't even get me started about his immigration stance. In this day and age, I'm not sure I can tolerate another Republican who is not a rock-ribbed conservative on illegal immigration...this country just can not culturally survive another 4 years of open borders. Seriously, I'm not happy with ANY of the candidates running at this point, though I suspect I will have to hold my nose and vote in 2012 because another term of Obama is simply not an option.
True, but the Palinistas will be screaming until the Presidential Election and, after the Election, they will be bragging about how they wrote in Palin's name.
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