Posted on 11/05/2011 12:10:03 PM PDT by UniqueViews
Much has been made lately about Rick Perry's deep decline in Republican presidential polls over the past two months.
However, it would be a very bad idea to count Perry out just yet.
The reason? History.
According to Real Clear Politics, on November 3rd, 2007, four years exactly to the day, Giuliani held a 13 point lead (29-16 percent) on former senator Fred Thompson, the second candidate in the top tier four years ago, was nowhere to be seen when Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., captured the GOP nomination. The eventual nominee was stuck at 14 percent, while Romney sat in fourth place at 11 percent.
Clinton had the eventual presidential winner, Obama, almost doubled up (43 percent to 22 percent) at the same point.
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Perry supporters need not be disheartened over his current position, but I think he is clearly struggling with running a national race.
McCain had not gone from 30% to single digits in the polls.
After saying he would give illegals work visas to come and go as they please, we have 9% unemployment, I think his time has run out.
That doesn’t make Rick Perry any less of a RINO!
Giving a drunk speech in NH did not help either.
Worse yet, I don’t believe he was. At least that would have been a decent excuse.
This makes no sense. This is like saying when a football team is trailing 30-6 and saying “That’s okay because a couple weeks ago the 49ers came from behind and beat the Eagles”. WTF does that have to do with anything???
Has anyone, ever in the history of presidential campaigns, had such a dramatic drop in the polls and come back to win the nomination?
Perry is pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, pro-small government, anti-spending, anti-taxes, anti-excessive regulations, pro-business/ free enterprise, pro-secure border, anti-Obamacare — WITH A RECORD, not just words.
Since when is that considered being a “RINO”. Please explain.
La Raza Rick is done.
You should get your facts straight.
Perry wasn’t drunk at speech, says host
Presidential candidate Rick Perry was stone-cold sober during his bombastic, comedic speech in New Hampshire, according to the man who invited the Texas governor to speak and spent much of the evening with him.
“I can tell you unequivocally he wasn’t drinking at the event and he hadn’t been drinking prior to the event,” said Kevin Smith, the executive director of Cornerstone Action, the conservative group that hosted the event over the weekend. “I was sitting with him, and I found him to be very engaging with all of the people he was talking with, he was very articulate.”
4 years ago the primary cycle was 2 months later.
Let me know what the polls were in early January...then we can really assess what’s going on.
True fact.
“Since when is that considered being a “RINO”. Please explain.”
When he’s willing to let some 10 to 15 million ILLEGALS stay here permanently. He’s DEFINITELY to the left side of the party...much closer to Romney than he is to Newt or Cain.
Perry is one of the bravest politicians to come along since Walter Mondale.
Why would any Conservative support this guy?? He’s anti-American...and that is what this race is about....someone who loves AMERICA! Not someone who aids and abets illegal immigrants!!!!!!
Love him or hate him; Gov. “Good hair” knows how to WIN.
Perry is a joke. The odds of him returning to the top tier is almost nil now.
The conservative base has seen him for who he really is...An establishment republican with liberal leanings in some areas of policy.
He is a non-starter and is exactly in the polls where such a candidate belongs.
The REAL conservatives WILL NOT BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF this election. The free ride for voting for these fakes is OVER.
Most are not conservatives. Just a bunch of reactionaries and nativists. ALL 100% malcontents!
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