Posted on 09/01/2011 5:50:00 AM PDT by sunmars
For the first time this year, Texas Governor Rick Perry leads President Obama in a national Election 2012 survey. Other Republican candidates trail the president by single digits.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows Perry picking up 44% of the vote while the president earns support from 41%. Given the margin of sampling error (+/- 3 percentage points) and the fact that the election is more than a year away, the race between the two men is effectively a toss-up. Just over a week ago, the president held a three-point advantage over Perry. (To see question wording, click here.)
Perry leads by nine among men but trails by five among women. Among voters under 30, the president leads while Perry has the edge among those over 30. The president leads Perry by 16 percentage points among union members while Perry leads among those who do not belong to a union.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney currently trails the president by four percentage points, 43% to 39%. That’s a slight improvement for the Republican compared to a week ago. Earlier in the year, Romney held a one-point edge when matched against the president. Prior to today’s release, that was the only time a named Republican has held any kind of lead over President Obama. A Generic Republican currently leads the president 48% to 40%.
If Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is the GOP candidate, the president leads 46% to 38%. Unlike Perry and Romney, Bachmann’s numbers are a bit weaker now than they were a week ago.
Finally, if the Republicans were to nominate businessman Herman Cain, President Obama would attract 42% of the vote to Cain’s 35%.
their fault = Bildeberger, Bohemein Grove, International Bankers, IMF, Israel, CFR, “Neocons”....etc
I can’t believe Slick Rick Perry has this great a shot at becoming President. You know, he and Sarah are friends. She has been saying all along that she wouldn’t run unless she felt that she NEEDED to run. I bet with Rick doing so well, if he doesn’t shoot himself in the foot, she will not run. VP again? Maybe. I’d rather see her as head of RNC. She REALLY knows how to do retail and the scratch-my-back style of politics and she has endless energy, enthusiasm, and oh... that following.
I already have 1,000’s bet on Perry back when his chances were down in the single digits. I stand to make 10’s of thousands of dollars once he gets the nomination.
I love Intrade, it enables me to make money off my hobby of following politics.
Made more than $20,000 in 2010 betting on the midterms, when you follow things closely on boards like this it’s not hard to guess what’s going to happen.
Our economy.
BINGO!
I have been saying basically the same thing for years now, Bush was NOT a Texan, at his core he was a NE Liberal raised by NE liberals pretending to be a Texan.
Bush lost his first race for political office, and he admitted to learning something from the whole experience, he said ... he would NEVER allow anyone to out country or out christian him ever again. It was at this point that he adopted his faux cowboy persona. But it was all for show. Bush bought his ranch in Crawford (just up the road by the way) 6 months before he was elected, and as soon as his 2nd term in office was done he moved to Dallas, since their was no need to keep up the cowboy pretense anymore. He still owned the ranch, but he doens’t come down much anymore.
I think Rick is slick, and he’s a lot more shifty than I used to think, and he has done some bonehead things as Governor of Texas, but by golly, he was better than any of the alternatives in the last gubernatorial election, and he’s better than any of the current crop of candidates among the pubs. He’s a ferocious campaigner, but he does it with a lot of humor, and he takes it right to his opponent. I’d actually be proud to see him in there. I think he’d do a decent job, though we’d have to ride herd on him just like W.
The only things they will be able to find to throw at Perry are the things most like what old purplelips does and stands for, so if they criticize Rick, they'll be criticizing themselves. Rick Perry: Better Than The Alternatives
He drops his Gs.
“I really like Herman Cain and think he’d be a good VP pick.”
Herman Cain as the VP candidate would drive the final nail in Obama’s coffin.
Secretary of the Interior? (aka CEO of USofA oil and gas reserves?)
If you believe ANY polling then you are naive. I have held the same view of polling for over a decade.
As far as Assmussen is concerned, he stopped including Palin in his polling quite some time ago. He gave the reason that he was focusing on the current field, that is sensible, however he entered Perry in the field prior to Perry officially entering. Now EVERYTHING points to Palin getting in, but he will not include her.
Make no mistake he personally dislikes her (that is allowed for sure) but as a professional pollster, you are supposed to leave your bias at the door, or the “science” goes out the window.
Assmussen will not give her a honest shake when she does enter the race.
ALL the pollsters are letting their like or dislike for a particular person affect the outcome of their polling, this is nothing new has been going on pre Palin for years.
The last honest pollster was George Gallup, a wonderful honest Christian man and a pioneer in polling, but he is long gone.
I’m a woman, very conservative, and I’d say that my middle-class female friends (in CA) tend to vote Dem not so much due to “pro choice” issues but more for other traditional Dem issues like being “pro-education” (they like lots of money for school funding), and Dems who are anti-war, anti-gun (modern moms hate guns and war), and being “pro-green.” In fact many of my friends pretty much abhor abortion.
The main thing is that moms these days, at least in CA where I live, middle class and otherwise, across the baord, really like high taxes for the schools. Even when the taxes are to be levied on themselves, or—more likely where I live with lots of stay-at-home moms, on their hardworking husbands. They go out lobbying for higher parcel taxes for their school districts. They love taxes for schools because then then “extras” like music and small class sizes are “spared” from budget cuts. It’s quite a racket—the parcel taxes end up going to teacher benefits and union activities, of course.
I don’t think a lot of people these days really think about abortion all that much, honestly. . .
A lot of us are leaving Palin out of the equation in recent weeks. She is not running and it looks like she won't? We just found out yesterday that she is giving a big speech in South Korea next month at the same time as the GOP NH debate. What are rational people supposed to think? Ripping a reliable GOP pollster over omitting people who are not running is silly. The few polls around that include Palin don't look to rosy for her anyway.
I disagree somwhat—I’ve read books about George W. Bush and researched him a bit and I’ve concluded that his working with the roughnecks at his failed oil business “Arbusto,” plus his TX baseball team involvement, not to mention being governor of TX, eventually made him quite Texan.
He liked (and likes) Kennebunkport but despised the whole Yale yuppie scene, and I’d say he honestly liked and likes his “windshield ranching” at his ranch. Maybe there are reasons why he’s at his ranch less often lately. Maybe Laura likes Dallas better, for instance. It’s still Texas. (BTW, I grew up in Houston).
Bush was raised in Texas from the time he was 2 years old. He married a Texas woman, he governed the state of Texas and moved back to Texas and lives there now.
If you want to criticize President Bush, don't be silly about it.
He's a Texan. And whatever slam you intended by associating him with the beautiful little Maine town of Kennebunkport where his grandparents vacationed doesn't hold water.
The attempt to make him a New England elitist doesn't mesh with the facts about the man (which you obviously know).
IMO, it's the kind of thing leftists do and has no place here.......especially with the horrific comparison to Obama and his anti-Americanism, which makes no sense at all.
That is my dream team right now.
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