Posted on 08/24/2011 10:16:35 PM PDT by lbryce
Barely a week into his 2012 presidential campaign, Rick Perry has already assumed the mantle of the de facto Republican front-runner, emerging in the latest Gallup national poll with a huge, 12-point margin of support over Mitt Romney.
The poll, conducted Aug. 17-21, found that 29% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents now support the Texas governor, compared with 17% for Mr. Romney, 13% for Texas Rep. Ron Paul and 10% for Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann.
“Perry’s official entry has shaken up the Republican race, making him the new leader for the party’s nomination,” the Gallup poll concludes.
The survey found a dramatic surge in enthusiasm for Mr. Perry in the days immediately after the Aug. 13 kickoff of his campaign. Other recent national polls have shown similar support for Mr. Perry and a similar abrupt ebb in support for Mr. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and presumptive front-runner pretty much since the 2012 race began. In the Gallup poll, Mr. Romney’s support shrank to 17%, from 23% in July and 27% in June…
Mr. Perry’s numbers were even stronger among key GOP voting blocs. He garnered 30% support among men, and 40% support among those over 65 years old. His support in the south hit 39%.
The poll delivered still more bad news for Mr. Romney, showing that an entry by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin into the race, as looks increasingly likely, would further weaken his position. With Ms. Palin in the race, a quarter of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said they would still support Mr. Perry, while Mr. Romney’s support would dip to 14%. Ms. Palin would come in tied with Mr. Paul at 11%.
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Unless he makes big mistakes, it looks like Perry will get the nomination.
I hope Myth has to dump so much cash into this race to regain the front runner status that he goes broke and has to live in a van by the river. That is the only way we will never see him again.
The RINOs are happy enough with him that getting establishment votes won’t be a problem. And he can put his yeehaw on and get a lot of conservative cheers, though also a lot of skepticism. As suboptimal as Perry would be, it’s worth it to kick Obama out.
Little early for that. But I do think it shows that anyone who ran before and lost has a huge mountain to climb. Conservatives are too hungry for victory to nominate someone who couldn’t even beat John McCain.
It also shows Palin needs to -—— or get off the pot.
As suboptimal as Perry would be, it’s worth it to kick Obama out.
Definately. I don’t think he would hesitate to hit 0bama where it hurts, either.
The establishment is trying to shove the biggest flip-flopper on us to insure a 2nd Obama term.
Rick Perry is to conservatism what Susan Smith was to motherhood.
P.S. If it’s going to be Perry, he would probably do well running with Cain or Bachmann. I so much would like to see a black person (like Cain) who isn’t an oaf eventually get into the Oval Office, to put the lie to the racial stereotypes that Barack Obama only intensified. Good grief, the Lord made “colored people” with a better idea in mind than to be bumming party animals! Eight years of Perry, eight of Cain with the full support of the GOP. And a much stronger America at the end of it all.
The New Romney is no more inevitable than the Old Romney.
It also shows Palin needs to -—— or get off the pot.
She’d better do it soon.
I can’t remember where I heard it but if she doesn’t run, the lefties will say that’s proof she’s a quitter. Bastards.
If he’s that bad, I think Cain will chop him down.
Outside of FR, you'd be lucky to find one person in 1000 that thought Mitt Romney and Rick Perry were even the slightest bit similar.
As far as inevitable, no. Extremely competitive, yes. Nobody's going to be gliding towards this nomination. It's going to be a knife fight, no matter who gets in or falls out.
Everybody knows the sordid story of how a few Rat activists took pot shots at Palin through a quirky legal loophole, putting her in a practically untenable position. For Rats to turn around and brag about that is to show themselves up as frank manipulators and bullies.
Agreed.
It also shows they can win. Democrats are like Muslims in that regard. If you're fighting an enemy, lies, deceit, and underhandedness are not vices, but virtues. They revel in it.
It might be offensive to people with principles (conservatives) but independents are largely less idealistic and more entertainment oriented. I'm really not sure how they'd take it. I imagine it would be just another round of reality TV to them, which is rife with manipulators and bullies.
Yep. More proof of how rotten the Rats are.
It’s highly unlikely a VP Cain would be the nominee in 2020 for one good reason... he’ll be 75. President Reagan was 3/4ths finished with his two terms by that age.
It opens the question for non-Democrat candidates to ask John Q. Public, “do you really want bully bureaucrats to comprise your government?” A question that the 2008 John McCain was in the exquisitely right position to ask, while being the exquisitely wrong person to expect to ever ask it.
Colin Powell is still available for you.
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