Polls will be coming out with Perry beating Bammy Boy by at least 15 points. In two months this is what you will see. All these Republican versus Obama polls are fluid, highly changeable
You don’t understand what “electable” means.
Any Republican is capable of winning the Republican primary, or, put differently, the ability of winning the Republican primary is not a reason to vote for a person.
Especially if you’d lose in November. Winning or losing in November is what people mean when they talk about “electability”.
If Democrats and Independents in Ohio and Indiana hate Rick Perry, it doesn’t help Perry at all that 10 percent of Republicans are switching from Romney to Perry. Unless Perry gets votes from Independents and Democrats north of the Ohio River, he’s not electable. Ron Paul gets more of those votes.
Yes, it’s true that Rick Perry does well with elderly Republican women.
Check these crosstabs of the Merrimack NH poll.
Paul is in 3d place with 14%, Perry in 2d place with 18%.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/62506259/New-Hampshire-2012-Republican-Primary-Survey-Crosstabs-081711
Paul does better than Perry with Independent Men - 21 / 13.
That right there points to Perry’s electability problems.
The R’s will vote for Paul over Obama. Some would rather have Perry, but they’d vote for Paul.
The I’s won’t vote for Perry, especially young male independents.