Posted on 08/25/2011 4:26:02 PM PDT by CA Conservative
It’s official: Mitt Romney is no longer the frontrunner in the GOP presidential primary.
Major reputable poll after major reputable poll, conducted over the last ten days or so, shows Texas Gov. Rick Perry leading the former Massachusetts governor by significant margins.
The polling data suggests not only that Perry survived his early stumbles on the stump – most notably, his suggestions that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke could be guilty of “treason” if the Fed prints more money, and that Texans would accordingly treat Bernanke “pretty ugly” – but that Perry is, in fact, picking up steam.
The latest Rasmussen Reports poll of likely Republican primary voters, conducted on August 15, shows Perry leading Romney by 11 percentage points. The latest Gallup survey, querying Republicans and Republican-leaning independents between August 17 and August 21, shows Romney trailing Perry by 12 percentage points. Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, which tallied Republican primary voters between August 18 and August 21, put the gap at 13 percentage points.
Yet Thursday found Perry, during a radio appearance on “The Laura Ingraham Show,” still peppering Romney with stiff right jabs, as if it were Perry who is the scrappy underdog.
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Front runner does not mean much, when 70+ % of the people supports someone other than Hoover Perry.
If not Palin, I think I could live with Perry. (May have to.) Night-an-day difference from what we have now.
IMHO, Mitt never was the front runner. He never has and probably never could get the support of the conservatives.
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Okay then - how much support does your preferred candidate get?
I'll take a Rick Perry who can beat Obama over a Sarah Palin who cannot.
Flame suit on but it's the truth.
You speak wise words my friend....
Perry takes national double-digit lead among GOP frontrunners (Gallup - Aug, 2011)
Perry takes national double-digit lead among GOP frontrunners (Ramussen - Aug, 2011)
Perry takes national double-digit lead among GOP frontrunners (PPP - Aug, 2011)
Perry opens double digit lead in 5 national polls (NYT - Aug, 2011)
Perry leads GOP in IOWA (PPP - Aug, 2011)
Perry led GOP contenders in North Carolina and Virginia BEFORE he declared candidacy
Perry GOP frontrunner in South Carolina (Roll Call - Aug, 2011)
Perry beating Obama in Florida (Magellan Data - Aug, 2011)
Besides, think of how much fun it’s going to be running the white man who picked cotton as a boy against the black man who graduated from Yale!
Just because most of your brains dribbled down you Momma’s leg years ago don’t give you the right to stay on FR and post lies....
Romney was never a real front runner. He was a default choice for some. He was the left wing media’s choice. Now that Rick Perry is in the race, conservatives can get behind a candidate who has a real chance of sending the Muslim Marxist and his luxury hotel loving wife back to Kenya. Is there a Four Seasons in Mombasa for fat ass Michelle to stay at?
I know. There’s a group of bull sharks on FR that would like to rip you apart for saying that about Palin (so much for “free” in (that section of) “FR”) Having said that, I’d love to see Palin give it a try - I personally think she could take Obama.
This is BS.
Milt is where he always was. a fake.
If Rick Perry wants credit, then he must make Milt resign.
LOL! Oh, the irony . . . privileged black man running against a self-made son of a dirt farmer.
‘ll take a Rick Perry who can beat Obama over a Sarah Palin who cannot.’
She is a great gal...but no way could she win the national election. No flames from me...as I agree with you and it worries the tar out of me that she will jump in and give us Obama another 4 yrs.
That logic can be applied to every single person in that list, which means that more than 77% don't want any of the other candidates.
They both sold Bibles door to door (well, Mitt peddled the Book of M), but let's take bets on who'll win this little kerfuffle...the hard scrabble country boy or the Joe Smith cult member.
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