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%.
Well said.
Agreed Bachmann needs an in assisting in downsizing the IRS EPA and so on.Perry got called extreme by the media because he called programs ponzi schemes. THEY ARE!
Perry trails by five among women
So much for the sexy Perry meme.
Perry trailing among women. “Hunk” stunk. Who’da thunk!
What makes you so confident that we’ll put another Texan in the White House so soon after Bush?
Yes, they are what you described. He and his father both have a big ego from what I have been told, but they definitely not nor have ever been lefties.
See #30, #39, #86
The gay vote will make up the difference.
Bump!
I agree — they will try to pound him. But something about Perry is much different. There is not as much to pound him about, at least personally.
I have always enjoyed seeing Palin and her family, but when she puts it all out there, it’s nothing but a target for the sickos in our media and in the lib camp. I’ve always felt she should have downplayed it all ...but she continues not to.
Perry — who knows. I hope he does well — but at this point, he makes it about the issues, and not himself. It’s what we need — an attack dog. I hope he gets tougher and tougher and tougher. I like what I see and hear so far.
If he’s even marginally more capitalist than Obama, I don’t think people will really care where he’s from.
Not only that, as I remind my lib coworkers from time to time, that 5% unemployment and 1.80/gallon gas was hell on earth, wasn't it?
So you will offer a real money wager at 9:1 odds?
Hell, I'd vote for Casey Anthony if that was the only alternative.
I don’t really know much about Perry, good or bad, but I do know this:
HE AIN’T 0BAMA!!!!
FUBO GTFO ! 507 Days until Noon Jan 20, 2013
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That’s how I feel too at this point. I’m going to vote for whoever can kick his sorry arse to the curb.
I do think Mr. “I Won” is terrified of Perry and the thought of debating him gets oblahblah all wee wee’’d up.
In reality he is a 'post natal abortion' advocate.
Rasmussen and other pollsters are pushing Perry for a host of reasons.
One of them is for the single purpose of trying to keep Gov Palin out of the race, and/or once she is in to manufacture opinion against her.
There are other reasons behind the MSM/Rep est pushing Perry, or at least pushing him for a short period as they have with Bachmann.
Another reason/least reason is just for a pollster to make news for himself
I would like to ask Perry one question and get an honest answer:
“Mr. Perry, during the 2008 campaign a woman was at a McCain even and told him she was afraid of O, and that he wa a Muslim. McCain’s response was “No, no he’s not, he is a good, decent family man.” Now, Mr. Perry, how could McCain know for sure if he was or was not a Muslim or a good family man? What would your response would have been?”
McCain campaigned not for McCain, he campaigned for that POS in the WH. His response should have been: “ Well I don’t know if he’s a Muslim, you need to ask him that question.”. End of story. McCain is a chicken sh*t or didn’t want to win. One of the other.
You can’t fight evil by being nice, it just doesn’t work.
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