Rasmussen: Perry 29%, Romney 18%, Bachmann 13% (Perry leads Romney by double digits)

Rasmussen Reports ^ | August 16, 2011

[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.

[mandaladon]

Here are mu picks in order of preference:

1. Rubio
2. West
3. Ryan
4. Cain
5. Bolton

[mandaladon]

Here are my picks in order of preference:

1. Rubio
2. West
3. Ryan
4. Cain
5. Bolton

[blowfish]

I don’t see what is ‘manly’ about shooting a moose from a helicopter, unless the moose has RPGs or something similar. :^D

[Sacajaweau]

Did a little looking into Paul Ryan....Looks like a good choice...and he looks like a good economics sidekick.

[Ingtar]

I was limiting my response to announced candidates. I’d forgotten Santorum was announced.

[The Unknown Republican]

Amen. Give me Bachmann over Perry any day of the week. I simply don’t trust Perry.

[Steel Wolf]

Obama’s mother was a citizen....Neither of Rubio’s parents were citizens when he was born.

He's still an American citizen by birth, not naturalization. I understand what you're saying, but bottom line is the Supreme Court won't challenge their own precedent. The DNC would swallow Draino by the gallon before publicly fighting to prove that a Hispanic is less of a citizen than black or white one (like Obama).

The fact that he's quite conservative makes that the perfect storm. ;-)

[Danae]

Well, the slightly less of two RINO’s is in the lead. (barf)

[VideoDoctor]

Way too big a jump for Perry in the polls for NO apparent reason.

I call "Bull$hit".

[Jedidah]

I agree wholeheartedly, but doesn’t look like it’s going to happen.

Not a good field, so far. Bachmann’s resume is as thin as Obama’s was in 2008.

Paul and Huntsman are jokes. Santorum doesn’t stand a chance. Romney is a rich has-been with a bad record.

Perry, for whom I will vote if I must, is, as we say in Texas, the best governor money can buy. I don’t know how he would behave as CIC.

Cain could do the job. Maybe others will jump in soon.

We need someone with executive experience and a mean streak to get rid of the Marxists.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

I don’t see what is ‘manly’ about shooting a moose from a helicopter, unless the moose has RPGs or something similar. :^D

PALIN DERANGEMENT SYNDROME

[Thane_Banquo]

I’d prefer Cain or Bachmann, but realistically I’m in the “anybody but Romney” camp. Romney is Obama-lite, and every one of the other major candidates is a vast improvement. Anyone who thinks Romney will repeal Obamacare is smoking crack.

[television is just wrong]

“Good news. Let’s get the RINOs out of the race early and narrow the field to conservatives only.”

I AGREE!

[DRey]

Yeah. I want Rubio, too. Rubio seems to think he can win. You know, aside from all the other Obama citizenship stuff, even if he WAS born in Hawaii, he’s not a “natural born citizen” because his mother had to be an American five years after her 16th birthday before he was born — since his father was a foreigner. A lot to soak in, but we have precedent for birth in American = enough for “natural born” status. Perry/Rubio 2012!

[submarinerswife]

Get used to this lead, Paultards.

[xzins]

A stalking horse for Myth Romney?

That doesn’t make sense. Perry leads Romney by double digits. How can he be a romney operative?

[Jedidah]

Your “suicidal” remark is probably a bit strong.

I see the discussions here about possible nominees to be a healthy family debate.

Next summer’s campaign is going to be brutal. Best to vet candidates and air the dirty laundry before the primaries rather than leave it for the Dems to do in fall ‘12.

As a fellow Texan who has watched and supported Perry for years, I don’t trust him. He’s stabbed me in the back way too many times, and I feel a responsibility to share that experience with out-of-staters.

We can do better.

That said, I will vote for the eventual GOP, whoever it is.

And that, my FRiend, is desperation.

[DRey]

No. It hasn’t been settled. I fact, Rubio just started a new PAC “to raise his national profile.” As far as I know, the next thing up from senator is...VP? Our current fearless leader was not a “natural born” citizen either — even if you believe he was born in Hawaii — due to his foreign father and his mother’s age at his birth. There is at least precedent.

[ohioWfan]

Santorum’s not a RINO.

[DRey]

Even if they DID complain, he could run as the VP until it was decided by the supreme court.